| Collisella subrugosa | |
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| Collisella subrugosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Lottiidae |
| Genus: | Collisella |
| Species: | C. subrugosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Collisella subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841) |
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Collisella subrugosa is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae. It is still designated under its synonyms Acmaea subrugosa or Lottia subrugosa in many textbooks. [1]
This species is found along the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, mostly in the mid-intertidal zone. [2] It is the most common limpet with large population sizes in the Brazilian midlittoral. It can fill the small gaps in mussel beds dominated by Brachidontes solisianus and Brachidontes darwinianus. [3] They are also very abundant in the regions dominated by the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera. [4]
The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm