Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.781 million years ago).
Species in the genus Metula include:
Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)
Metula africana Bouchet, 1988
Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941
Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913
Metula andamanica Smith, 1906
Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992
Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990
Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988
Metula cumingi A. Adams, 1853
Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903
Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972
Metula elongata Dall, 1907
Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995
Metula gigliottii Coltro, 2005
Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972
Metula kilburni Parth, 1994
Metula lintea Guppy, 1882
Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)
Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972
Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928
Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972
Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997
Metula reticularis Traub, 1938
Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000
Species brought into synonymy
Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans Rehder, 1943
