Lottia

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Lottia
File:Lottia gigantea.jpg
Lottia gigantea
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Lottia

Gray, 1833 [1]
Synonyms
  • Collisella Dall, 1871
  • Collisellacmaea Christiaens, 1975
  • Conoidacmea Habe, 1944
  • Kikukozara Habe, 1944
  • Lecania Carpenter, 1866 (junior objective synonym of Lottia)
  • Nomaeopelta S.S. Berry, 1958
  • Tecturella Carpenter, 1860 (junior homonym of Tecturella Stimpson, 1854)
  • Tecturina Carpenter, 1861 (not available: nomen nudum)

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Lottia is a genus of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Lottia : [2]

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Species brought into synonymy

The following species are also: synonym of species in current use by the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database [5]

  • Lottia areneosa (Gould, 1846)
  • Lottia heroldi (Dunker, 1861)
  • Lottia (Lottia) compressa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lottia (Lottia) patina (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)
  • Lottia (Lottia) radiata (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) adds the following species [6]

References

  1. Gray (1833). Phil. Trans. roy. Soc., 774, 800.
  2. WoRMS : Lottia; accessed : 15 May 2012
  3. Gastropods.com
  4. Crummett L. T. & Eernisse D. J. (2007). "Genetic evidence for the cryptic species pair, Lottia digitalis and Lottia austrodigitalis and microhabitat partitioning in sympatry". Marine Biology 152(1): 1–13. abstract
  5. OBIS : Lottia
  6. ITIS : Lottia

Further reading

  • Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99

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