Lottia

Lottia
Lottia gigantea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Lottia
Gray, 1833 [1]
Synonyms
  • Collisella Dall, 1871
  • Collisellacmaea Christiaens, 1975
  • Conoidacmea Habe, 1944
  • Kikukozara Habe, 1944
  • Lecania Carpenter, 1866 (junior objective synonym of Lottia)
  • Nomaeopelta S.S. Berry, 1958
  • Tecturella Carpenter, 1860 (junior homonym of Tecturella Stimpson, 1854)
  • Tecturina Carpenter, 1861 (not available: nomen nudum)

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 (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Lottia : [2]

Species brought into synonymy
Lottia mixta
Lottia strigatella

The following species are also: synonym of species in current use by the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database [5]

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) adds the following species [6]

References

  1. Gray (1833). Phil. Trans. roy. Soc., 774, 800.
  2. WoRMS : Lottia; accessed : 15 May 2012
  3. Gastropods.com
  4. 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
  5. OBIS : Lottia
  6. ITIS : Lottia

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