Lottia subrugosa

Lottia subrugosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
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 edit

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]

The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm

^ Malacolog : Lottia subrugosa
^ 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
^ 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.
^ Tanaka, Marcel O.; Cláudia A. Magalhães (2002). "Edge effects and succession dynamics in Brachidontes mussel beds" (PDF). Marine Ecology Progress Series. 237: 151–158. Bibcode:2002MEPS..237..151T. doi:10.3354/meps237151. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
^ Magalhães, C.A.; Tanaka, M. O.; Duque-Estrada, T.E.M.; Hara, H. E. (1993). "Homing in Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny) - What do we know, Where do we go?". The Malacological Society of London. Archived from the original on 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2010-07-26.

d'Orbigny, A. 1841. Mollusques. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5: 425–488, pls. 72–76, 79–80. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1841.]
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. doi:10.1007/s10709-006-0024-3. PMID 16897456.