Lottia is a genus of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lottiinae of the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Lottia
Lottia gigantea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Family: Lottiidae
Subfamily: Lottiinae
Tribe: Lottiini
Genus: Lottia
Gray, 1833 [1]
Species

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Synonyms[citation needed]
  • Acmaea (Collisella) Dall, 1871
  • Collisella Dall, 1871
  • Collisella (Collisella) Dall, 1871
  • Collisella (Kikukozara) Habe, 1944
  • 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)

Species edit

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]

  • Lottia areneosa (Gould, 1846)
  • Lottia heroldi (Dunker, 1861)
  • Lottia (Lottia) compressa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lottia (Lottia) patina (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)
  • Lottia (Lottia) radiata (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)

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

References edit

  1. ^ Gray (1833). Phil. Trans. roy. Soc., 774, 800.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2021). Lottia Gray, 1833. Accessed 20 August 2021
  3. ^ "Lottia albicosta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  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

Further reading edit

  • Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99