1912  Prolecanites.-Dollé: 251.
     1922  Metacanites Schindewolf: 15.
pars1925  Prolecanites.-Schmidt: 541.
non 1941  Metacanites.-Librovich: 140.
non 1947  Metacanites.-Librovich: 57.
     1960  Metacanites.-Ruzhentsev: 185.
     1961  Metacanites.-Pareyn: 85.
     1962  Metacanites.-Kullmann: 100.
     1962  Metacanites.-Kullmann: 84.
     1962  Metacanites.-Bogoslovskii, Librovich & Ruzhentsev: 348.
     1963  Metacanites.-Kullmann: 285.
     1964  Dombarocanites.-Gordon: 20.
     1972  Metacanites.-Weyer: 330.

Type species: Metacanites serpentinus Schindewolf, 1922, p.15. [= Metacanites schindewolfi nov.nom Kullmann,1962,p.103, pro Prolecanites serpentinus Dollé,1912 (non Phillips,1836); = Metacanites dollei nov.nom Librovitch, 1962, p.348,  pro Prolecanites serpentinus Dollé,1912 (non Phillips,1836). According to article 70b of the International Rules of Zoological
Nomenclature Metacanites serpentinus Schindewolf,1922 is the valid name of the type species of the genus Metacanites.

A:   Conch cross section  oval.
G:   Suture line in general like Prolecanites. Upper part of ventral lobe wide, pouched and orad narrowed; basic part very
narrow, pipe-like.

[Transitional to Prolecanites, may be its junior synonym; for discussion see WEYER, 1972, p.330. Transitional to Dombarocanites, maybe its senior synonym; for discussion see Weyer, 1972, p.330].