Collisella
Collisella is a genus of primitive sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
This genus of shield limpets has been classified by some authors under the family Acmaeidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Colisella include:[3]
- Collisella acutapex Berry, S.S., 1960
- Collisella adami Christiaens, J., 1975
- Collisella atrata Carpenter, P.P., 1857
- Collisella borneensis
- Collisella conus Test, A.R., 1945 - test limpet
- Collisella discors (Philippi, R.A., 1849)
- † Collisella edmitchelli Lipps, 1966
- Collisella instabilis (Gould, A.A., 1846)
- Collisella kolarovai (Grabau, A.W. & S.G. King, 1928)
- Collisella lacerata Ramírez-Boehme, 1974
- Collisella lileana Ramírez-Boehme, 1970
- Collisella mortoni Christiaens, J., 1980
- Collisella pallidula Gould, A.A., 1859 - snowy limpet
- Collisella ruginosa Ramírez-Boehme, 1974
- Collisella scabra[4]
- Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny, 1846)[2]
- Collisella tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- Collisella triangularis (Carpenter, P.P., 1864) - triangular limpet
- Collisella triangularis f. orcutti Pilsbry, H.A., 1891
- Collisella uncinata guadeloupa Christiaens, J., 1975
The following species from American waters (from Baja California to Peru) are mentioned in the book "Seashells of Tropical West America" by A. Myra Keen, Stanford University Press, 1971.[5]
- Collisella atrata (Carpenter, 1857)
- Collisella dalliana (Pilsbry, 1891)
- Collisella mitella (Menke, 1847)
- Collisella pediculus (Philippi, 1846)
- Collisella stanfordiana (Berry, 1957)
- Collisella strigatella (Carpenter, 1864)
- Collisella strongiana (Hertlein, 1958)
- Collisella turveri (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)
Synonyms:
- Collisella pelta[4] is a synonym of Lottia pelta (Rathke, 1833)
- Colisella pelta pelta (Rathke, J. in Eschscholtz, J.F., 1833)
- Collisella pelta pelta f. postelsia
- Collisella pelta shirogai Habe, T. & K. Ito, 1965
References
Further reading
- Lindberg D. R. (1982). "Taxonomic notes on members of the genus Collisella from the North Pacific Ocean including the description of a new species from Alaska (Gastropoda: Acmaeidae)". Wasmann Jour. Biol. 40(1-2): 48-58.