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Collisella subrugosa 
Collisella subrugosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Patellogastropoda Superfamily: Lottioidea Family: Lottiidae Genus: Collisella Species: C. subrugosa Binomial name Collisella subrugosa
(d'Orbigny, 1841)Synonyms - Acmaea subrugosa d'Orbigny, 1841
- Helcion subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Lottia onychina Gould, 1852
- Acmaea onychina (Gould, 1852)
- Patella muelleri Dunker, 1875
Collisella 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 Lottia subrugosa in many textbooks. [1]
Distribution and habitat
This species is found along the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, mostly in the mid-intertidal zone. [2] 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. [3] They are also very abundant in the regions dominated by the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera. [4]
Description
The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm
References
- ^ Malacolog : Lottia subrugosa
- ^ 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. http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/68/1/55. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ Tanaka, Marcel O.; Cláudia A. Magalhães (2002). "Edge effects and succession dynamics in Brachidontes mussel beds". Marine Ecology Progress Series 237: 151–158. doi:10.3354/meps237151. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2002/237/m237p151.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ 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. http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/Malacological%20Bulletin/BULL41/LIMPETS2.htm#Begin.
- 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. http://www.springerlink.com/content/u06462u16313753m/. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
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