Lottia subrugosa

Lottia subrugosa
Lottia subrugosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Lottia
Species: L. subrugosa
Binomial name
Lottia subrugosa
(d'Orbigny, 1841)
Synonyms
  • Acmaea onychina (Gould, 1852)
  • Acmaea subrugosa d'Orbigny, 1841
  • Collisella subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
  • Helcion subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
  • Lottia onychina Gould, 1852
  • Patella muelleri Dunker, 1875

Lottia 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 Collisella subrugosa in many textbooks. [1] [2]

Distribution and habitat

This species is found along the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, mostly in the mid-intertidal zone. [3] 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. [4] They are also very abundant in the regions dominated by the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera. [5]

Description

The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm

References

  1. Malacolog : Lottia subrugosa
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594482 on 2012-05-15
  3. Tanaka, Marcel O.; Tiago E. M. Duque-Estrada; CLÁUDIA A. MAGALHÃES (2002). "Dynamics of the Acmaeid Limpet Collisella Subrugosa and Vertical Distribution of Size and Abundance along a Wave Exposure Gradient". Journal of Molluscan Studies 68 (1): 55–64. doi:10.1093/mollus/68.1.55. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  4. Tanaka, Marcel O.; Cláudia A. Magalhães (2002). "Edge effects and succession dynamics in Brachidontes mussel beds" (PDF). Marine Ecology Progress Series 237: 151–158. doi:10.3354/meps237151. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  5. MAGALHÃES, C.A.; TANAKA, M. O., DUQUE-ESTRADA, T.E.M. AND HARA, H. E. (1993). "Homing in Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny) - What do we know, Where do we go?". The Malacological Society of London. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
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