Collisella

Collisella
Lottia atrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Collisella
Dall, 1871[1]

Collisella was 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 has become a synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833 [2]

This genus of shield limpets was classified by some authors under the family Acmaeidae.[3]


Species

Lottia discors
Lottia stanfordiana

Species within the genus Colisella include:[4]

Species brought into synonymy

Synonyms:

References

  1. Dall W. H. (1871). "On the limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group". American Journal of Conchology 6: 227-282. page 245.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Collisella Dall, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153563 on 2012-05-15
  3. 1 2 Juliana, José; Vera Nisaka Solferini (2007). "Population genetics of Collisella subrugosa (Patellogastropoda: Acmaeidae): evidence of two scales of population structure". Genetica. 130 (1): 73–82. PMID 16897456. doi:10.1007/s10709-006-0024-3. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
  4. Gastropods.com
  5. 1 2 Sanders, Brenda M.; Christopher Hope; Virginia M Pascoe; Leslie S. Martin (1991). "Characterization of the Stress Protein Response in two Species of Collisella limpets with different Temperature Tolerances". Physiological Zoology. 64 (6): 1471–1481. JSTOR 30158225.

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