Collisella

Collisella
Collisella
Collisella atrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Collisella
Dall, 1871[1]

Collisella is a genus of primitive sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

This genus of shield limpets has been classified by some authors under the family Acmaeidae.[2]

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Species

Collisella discors
Collisella stanfordiana

Species within the genus Colisella include:[3]

  • Collisella acutapex Berry, S.S., 1960
  • Collisella adami Christiaens, J., 1975
  • Collisella atrata Carpenter, P.P., 1857
  • Collisella borneensis
  • Collisella conus Test, A.R., 1945 - test limpet
  • Collisella discors (Philippi, R.A., 1849)
  • † Collisella edmitchelli Lipps, 1966
  • Collisella instabilis (Gould, A.A., 1846)
  • Collisella kolarovai (Grabau, A.W. & S.G. King, 1928)
  • Collisella lacerata Ramírez-Boehme, 1974
  • Collisella lileana Ramírez-Boehme, 1970
  • Collisella mortoni Christiaens, J., 1980
  • Collisella pallidula Gould, A.A., 1859 - snowy limpet
  • Collisella ruginosa Ramírez-Boehme, 1974
  • Collisella scabra[4]
  • Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny, 1846)[2]
  • Collisella tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
  • Collisella triangularis (Carpenter, P.P., 1864) - triangular limpet
    • Collisella triangularis f. orcutti Pilsbry, H.A., 1891
    • Collisella uncinata guadeloupa Christiaens, J., 1975

The following species from American waters (from Baja California to Peru) are mentioned in the book "Seashells of Tropical West America" by A. Myra Keen, Stanford University Press, 1971.[5]

  • Collisella atrata (Carpenter, 1857)
  • Collisella dalliana (Pilsbry, 1891)
  • Collisella mitella (Menke, 1847)
  • Collisella pediculus (Philippi, 1846)
  • Collisella stanfordiana (Berry, 1957)
  • Collisella strigatella (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Collisella strongiana (Hertlein, 1958)
  • Collisella turveri (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)

Synonyms:

  • Collisella pelta[4] is a synonym of Lottia pelta (Rathke, 1833)
    • Colisella pelta pelta (Rathke, J. in Eschscholtz, J.F., 1833)
    • Collisella pelta pelta f. postelsia
    • Collisella pelta shirogai Habe, T. & K. Ito, 1965

References

  1. ^ Dall W. H. (1871). "On the limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group". American Journal of Conchology 6: 227-282. page 245.
  2. ^ a b 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. 
  3. ^ Gastropods.com
  4. ^ a b Sanders, Brenda M.; Christopher Hope, Virginia M Pascoe, Leslie S. Martin (1991). "Characterization of the Stress Protein Response in two Species of Collisella limpets with different Temperature Tolerances". Physiological Zoology 64 (6): 1471–1481. JSTOR 30158225. 
  5. ^ A. Myra Keen, "Seashells of Tropical West America", Stanford University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-8047-0736-7.

Further reading

  • Lindberg D. R. (1982). "Taxonomic notes on members of the genus Collisella from the North Pacific Ocean including the description of a new species from Alaska (Gastropoda: Acmaeidae)". Wasmann Jour. Biol. 40(1-2): 48-58.

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