Cellana

For other uses, see Cellana (Company).

Cellana
A shell of Cellana ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Nacelloidea
Family:	Nacellidae
Genus:	Cellana H. Adams, 1869
Species
See text
Synonyms
Helcioniscus Dall, 1871

Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Patellidae, the true limpets. ^[1]

Distribution

This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, Hawaii (where it is known as opihi) and around Australia and New Zealand. It is also found around Japan, the Red Sea, Mauritius, Madagascar, and South Africa and sub-Antartarctic Islands. One species, Cellana radiata, is cosmopolitan.

They feed by grazing on green macroalgae on the rocky substrates in intertidal zones. They can live up to seven years, most don't get older than 2-3 years. They reproduce by broadcasting their spawn in large, yolky eggs in great numbers (between 20,000 for C. flava and C. denticulata to 230,000 for C. ornata)

Species

Cellana conciliata

Cellana mazatlandica

Cellana rota

Species within the genus Cellana include: ^[1]

• Cellana analogia T. Iredale, 1940
• † Cellana carpenteriana Skwarko, 1966
• Cellana cernica H. Adams, 1879
• Cellana conciliata T. Iredale, 1940 - Rainbow limpet
• † Cellana cophina Powell, 1973
• Cellana craticulata Suter, 1905
• † Cellana cudmorei Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
• † Cellana deformis (K. Martin, 1883)
• Cellana denticulata Martyn, 1784
• Cellana eucosmia Pilsbry, 1891 (possibly synonym of C. grata)
• Cellana exarata - Hawaiian blackfoot ‘opihi
• Cellana flava Hutton, 1873
• Cellana garconi (Deshayes, 1863)
• Cellana grata Gould, 1859
  • Cellana grata stearnsi H. A. Pilsbry, 1891
• † Cellana hentyi Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
• Cellana howensis T. Iredale, 1940 Indo-Pacific
• Cellana karachiensis Winckworth, 1930 Red Sea
• Cellana mazatlandica Sowerby, 1839
• Cellana nigrolineata Reeve, 1854
• Cellana ornata Dillwyn, 1817
• Cellana pricei A. W. B. Powell, 1973
• Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cellana radiata I. von Born, 1778
  • Cellana radiata capensis (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Cellana radiata cylindrica Gmelin, 1791
  • Cellana radiata enneagona (L. A. Reeve, 1854)
  • Cellana radiata orientalis (H. A. Pilsbry, 1891)
  • Cellana radiata radiata (Born, 1778)
• Cellana sagittata A. A. Gould, 1846
• Cellana solida Blainville, 1825
• Cellana stellifera Gmelin, 1791
• Cellana strigilis Powell, 1955
  • Cellana strigilis strigilis Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841
  • Cellana strigilis bollonsi Powell, 1955
  • Cellana strigilis chathamensis (Pilsbry, 1891)
  • Cellana strigilis flemingi Powell, 1955
  • Cellana strigilis oliveri Powell, 1955
  • Cellana strigilis redimiculum (Reeve, 1854)
• Cellana taberna Powell, 1973
• Cellana taitensis . F. Röding, 1798
• Cellana talcosa Gould, 1846
• Cellana testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758
• † Cellana thomsoni Powell & Bartrum, 1929
• Cellana toreuma Reeve, 1855
• Cellana tramoserica Holten, 1802
• Cellana turbator T. Iredale, 1940
• Cellana vitiensis A. W. B. Powell, 1973

The sources, given below, also mention the following species :

• Cellana ampla
• Cellana ardosioea Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841
• Cellana argentata Sowerby, 1839
• Cellana enneagona L. A. Reeve, 1854
• Cellana melanostoma Pilsbry, 1891
• Cellana nigrisquamata L. A. Reeve, 1854
  • Cellana profunda mauritiana H. A. Pilsbry, 1891
• Cellana rota J. F. Gmelin, 1791
• Cellana sandwicensis (Pease, 1861)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} WoRMS (2010). Cellana H. Adams, 1869. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205749 on 2010-10-31

• "Cellana". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=656349. 
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Shell-bearing Mollusca: Gastropoda: Archeogastropoda & Mesogastropoda
• Phyleogeography of the Cellana limpets of New Zealand (pdf document)
• Powell A.W.B. (1973). The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 3(15):75-206.