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Radiacmea is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.
Distribution
This genus is endemic to New Zealand.
Description
Radiacmea shells are solid, opaque, porcellaneous, and radially ribbed. The radula is distinctive; the teeth are short and blunt, the centrals are in juxtaposition, and in advance of the laterals which are nearly of equal size and in two pairs, the outer pair being in advance of the inner.
Species
- Radiacmea inconspicua (Gray, 1843)
- Radiacmea intermedia (Suter, 1907)
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1