Radiacmea

Taxobox
name = "Radiacmea"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Patellogastropoda
familia = Acmaeidae
genus = "Radiacmea"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1915
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Radiacmea" is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Description

"Radiacmea" shells are solid, opaque, porcellaneous, and radially ribbed. The radula is distinctive; the teeth are short and blunt, the centrals are in , and in advance of the laterals which are nearly of equal size and in two pairs, the outer pair being in advance of the inner.

pecies

* "Radiacmea inconspicua" (Gray, 1843)
* "Radiacmea intermedia" (Suter, 1907)

References

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