Atalacmea fragilis

Taxobox
name = "Atalacmea fragilis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Patellogastropoda
subordo = Nacellina
superfamilia = Lottioidea
familia = Acmaeidae
genus = "Atalacmea"
species = "A. fragilis"
binomial = "Atalacmea fragilis"
binomial_authority = (Sowerby, 1823)
synonyms = "Patella fragilis" Sowerby, 1823
"Patella unguis-almae" Lesson, 1830
"Patella solandri" Colenso, 1844

"Acmaea fragilis" Suter, 1913

"Atalacmea fragilis" is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acmaeidae.

Distribution

This limpet is endemic to New Zealand.

Habitat

This species is found at depths of between 30 and 90 m.

Description

Exterior shell coloration is pale greenish, regularly, concentrically ringed with narrow olive-brown stripes. The interior is bright to suffused emerald-green, with the brown external pattern showing through at the margin, and in parts of the muscle attachment mark on the underside of the shell.

Length is up to 15 mm, width up to 12 mm, and height up to 2 mm.

References

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