Cellana denticulata

Taxobox
name = "Cellana denticulata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Patellogastropoda
subordo = Patellina
superfamilia = Patelloidea
familia = Patellidae
genus = "Cellana"
species = "C. denticulata"
binomial = "Cellana denticulata"
binomial_authority = (Martyn, 1784)
synonyms = "Patella denticulata" Martyn, 1784

"Cellana denticulata", or the denticulate limpet, is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island and the northern half of the South Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This limpet is found on intertidal rocks.

hell description

The shell of this species is large, solid, elevated, strongly, closely, and regularly radially ribbed, the surface crossed by numerous lamellose concentric ridges that thicken into granulose scales where they cross the radials.

The external shell coloration is greyish, with the ribs, and a netted interstitial pattern, dark-brown. The interior has the external pattern showing through, in brown or purplish-brown.

The maximum shell length is 70 mm, width 60 mm, and height 30 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1