Nipponacmea

Nipponacmea
Nipponacmea fuscoviridis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Nipponacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993[1]
Type species
Patella schrenkii Lischke, 1868

Nipponacmea is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lottiidae.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

These species are very common among the Japanese gastropod fauna on rocks and boulders in the intertidal zone of Japanese waters and adjacent islands.

Description

The shape of the thin shell is limpet-like or patelliform. It has a medium size and has a low to medium height. The base (the aperture) has an oval shape and is longer than wide.

The color of the shell is greenish brown and characteristically bedecked with granules of fine radial riblets. . The interior is greenish blue and has a shining luster. The thin an broad interior shell margin exhibits a distinct color and texture from the adjoining area.

The shell is constituted of five layers of different structure, while the genus Notoacmea has six layers.

The gill is flaplike with a bipectinate ctenidium situated in the nuchal cavity and lacks secondary pallial gills. The radula has typically three pairs of lateral teeth and one pair of marginal teeth that is either lacks any function or is degenerated with growth or is lacking from the beginning.

Species

Until 1993 the species of these Japanese limpets were allocated in the genus Notoacmea.^[1] They were reassigned based on different anatomical characters and shell structure and their endemism to the Japonic zoogeographical province (Japanese waters and adjacent island chains). There wasn't just enough similarity with the New Zealand species from Notoacmea. Also the radula characters were different. Lindberg (in 1986) had pointed out that the genus Notoacmea was restricted to species from New Zealand and Australia and that the North American species belonged in Tectura. The eight Japanese species had been unsettled until this study. Some authors consider them color variations, others regard them as subspecies or as independent species.^[1]

Species within the genus Nipponacmea include:

• Nipponacmea concinna (Lischke, 1870)^[3]
• Nipponacmea fuscoviridis (Teramachi, 1949)^[4]
• Nipponacmea gloriosa (Habe, 1944)^[5]
• Nipponacmea habei (Saski & Okutani, 1994)^[6]
• Nipponacmea moskalevi Chernyshev & Chernova, 2002^[7]
• Nipponacmea nigrans (Kira, 1961)^[8]
• Nipponacmea radula (Kira, 1961)^[9]
• Nipponacmea schrenckii (Lischke, 1868)^[10]
• Nipponacmea teramachii (Kira, 1961)^[11]
• Nipponacmea vietnamensis Chernyshev, 2008^[12]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Sasaki, T.; Okutani T. (1993). "New genus Nipponacmea (Gastropoda, Lottiidae): a revision of Japanese limpets hitherto allocated in Notoacmea". Venus, Jap. Journ. Malac. 52 (1): 1–40. http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hp/sasaki/p/001.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
2. ^ Nipponacmea .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391295 on 13 April 2010.
3. ^ Nipponacmea concinna (Lischke, 1870).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456611 on 13 April 2010.
4. ^ Nipponacmea fuscoviridis (Teramachi, 1949).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456612 on 13 April 2010.
5. ^ Nipponacmea gloriosa (Habe, 1944).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456613 on 13 April 2010.
6. ^ Nipponacmea habei (Saski & Okutani, 1994).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456614 on 13 April 2010.
7. ^ Nipponacmea moskalevi Chernyshev & Chernova, 2002.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395579 on 13 April 2010.
8. ^ Nipponacmea nigrans (Kira, 1961).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456615 on 13 April 2010.
9. ^ Nipponacmea radula (Kira, 1961).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456616 on 13 April 2010.
10. ^ Nipponacmea schrenckii (Lischke, 1868).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456617 on 13 April 2010.
11. ^ Nipponacmea teramachii (Kira, 1961).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456618 on 13 April 2010.
12. ^ Nipponacmea vietnamensis Chernyshev, 2008.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457034 on 13 April 2010.

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