Lottia
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| Genus: | Lottia |
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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 (WoRMSD), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Lottia : [2]
- Lottia albicosta (Adams, C.B., 1845) [3]
- † Lottia alveus, (Conrad, 1831) - eelgrass limpet, became extinct in the 20th century
- Lottia antillarum G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
- Lottia argrantesta Simison & Lindberg, 2003
- Lottia asmi (Middendorff, 1847) -- black limpet
- Lottia atrata (Carpenter, 1857)
- Lottia austrodigitalis This species is cryptic species and a sibling species with Lottia digitalis. Existence of Lottia austrodigitalis as separate species was genetically confirmed in 2007.[4]
- Lottia borealis (Lindberg, 1982) -- boreal limpet
- Lottia cassis (Eschscholtz, 1833)
- Lottia conus (Test, 1945)
- Lottia cubensis (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia dalliana (Pilsbry, 1891)
- Lottia digitalis (Rathke, 1833) - ribbed limpet
- Lottia dorsuosa (Gould, 1859)
- Lottia emydia (Dall, 1914)
- Lottia fascicularis (Menke, 1851)
- Lottia fenestrata (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia filosa (Carpenter, 1865)
- Lottia gigantea G.B. Sowerby I, 1834 - owl limpet
- Lottia immaculata (Lindberg & McLean, 1981)
- Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846) -- unstable limpet
- Lottia jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1791) - Jamaica limpet
- Lottia kogamogai Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia langfordi (Habe, 1944)
- Lottia leucopleura (Gmelin, 1791) - black-rib limpet
- Lottia limatula (Carpenter, 1864) - file limpet
- Lottia lindbergi Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia luchuana (Pilsbry, 1901)
- Lottia mesoleuca (Menke, 1851)
- Lottia mimica Lindberg & McLean, 1981
- Lottia mixta (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia onychitis (Menke, 1843)
- Lottia orbigny (Dall, 1909)
- Lottia painei Lindberg, 1987
- Lottia paradigitalis (Fritchman, 1960)
- Lottia pelta (Rathke, 1833) - shield limpet
- Lottia persona (Rathke, 1833)
- Lottia rothi (Lindberg & McLean, 1981)
- Lottia scabra (Gould, 1846) - rough limpet
- Lottia scutum (Rathke, 1833)
- Lottia septiformis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Lottia smithi Lindberg & McLean, 1981
- Lottia strigatella (Carpenter, 1864)
- Lottia subrotundata (Carpenter, 1865)
- Lottia tenuisculptata Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia testudinalis (Müller, 1776): synonym of Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
The following species are also accepted as species in current use by the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database [5]
- Lottia areneosa (Gould, 1846)
- Lottia cellanica (Christiaens, 1977)
- Lottia formosa (Christiaens, 1977)
- 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]
- Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871) -- yellow limpet : synonym of Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846)
- Lottia triangularis (Carpenter, 1864) -- triangular limpet
Synonyms:
- Lottia insessa (Hinds, 1842) is a synonym for Discurria insessa (Hinds, 1842)
References
- ^ Gray (1833). Phil. Trans. roy. Soc., 774, 800.
- ^ WoRMS : Lottia; accessed : 4 October 2010
- ^ Gastropods.com
- ^ 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
- ^ OBIS : Lottia
- ^ 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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