Acmaea mitra
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| Acmaea mitra | |
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| A live individual of Acmaea mitra. The shell is covered in encrusting red coralline algae, which is why it appears to be pink | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Patelloidea |
| Family: | Lottiidae |
| Genus: | Acmaea Eschscholtz, 1833 |
| Species: | A. mitra |
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| Acmaea mitra Rathke, 1833 |
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Acmaea mitra, common name the whitecap limpet, is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
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[edit] Taxonomy
Acmaea mitra is the only species in the genus Acmaea.[1][2]
Acmaea have been the type genus of the family Acmaeidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Based on molecular phylogeny research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[1] is Acmeaidae a synonym for Lottiidae.
[edit] Description
The shell of this species is white. The whitecap limpet is a specialist herbivore, feeding only on certain algae with its docoglossan radula.
[edit] See also
- Acmaea funiculata is a synonym for Niveotectura funiculata (Carpenter, 1864) - corded white limpet
- Acmaea tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) is a synonym for Collisella tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym001.
- ^ Gofas, S. (2009). Acmaea Eschscholtz, 1833. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137616 on 2010-03-30
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