Atalacmea fragilis

Atalacmea fragilis is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Atalacmea fragilis
Shell of Atalacmea fragilis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:
Lottioidea
Family:
Lottiidae
Genus:
Atalacmea
Species:
A. fragilis
Binomial name
Atalacmea fragilis
(Sowerby, 1823)
Synonyms

Patella fragilis Sowerby, 1823
Patella unguis-almae Lesson, 1830
Patella solandri Colenso, 1844

Acmaea fragilis Suter, 1913

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References
    • Lesson R.P. , 1831 Histoire naturelle des Mollusque, Annélides et Vers recueillis dans Voyage autour du monde exécuté par ordre du roi sur la corvette de S.M. La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825, sér. Zoologie, vol. 2(1), p. 471 p., 16 pls
    • Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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