Lottia

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

Lottia
Lottia gigantea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Lottia
Gray, 1833 [1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Acmaea (Collisella) Dall, 1871
  • Collisella Dall, 1871
  • Collisella (Collisella) Dall, 1871
  • Collisella (Kikukozara) Habe, 1944
  • Collisellacmaea Christiaens, 1975
  • Conoidacmea Habe, 1944
  • Kikukozara Habe, 1944
  • Lecania Carpenter, 1866 (junior objective synonym of Lottia)
  • Nomaeopelta S.S. Berry, 1958
  • Tecturella Carpenter, 1860 (junior homonym of Tecturella Stimpson, 1854)
  • Tecturina Carpenter, 1861 (not available: nomen nudum)

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Lottia :[2]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Lottia cymbiola (Gould, 1846): synonym of Scurria variabilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1839)
  • Lottia depicta (Hinds, 1842): synonym of Tectura depicta (Hinds, 1842)
  • Lottia insessa (Hinds, 1842): synonym for Discurria insessa (Hinds, 1842)
  • Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871): synonym of Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846)
  • Lottia paleacea (Gould, 1853): synonym of Tectura paleacea (Gould, 1853)
  • Lottia rosacea (Carpenter, 1864): synonym of Tectura rosacea (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Lottia testudinalis (Müller, 1776): synonym of Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
  • Lottia variabilis (Sowerby, 1839): synonym of Scurria variabilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1839)
Lottia mixta
Lottia strigatella

The following species are also: synonym of species in current use by the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database [5]

  • Lottia areneosa (Gould, 1846)
  • Lottia heroldi (Dunker, 1861)
  • Lottia (Lottia) compressa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lottia (Lottia) patina (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)
  • Lottia (Lottia) radiata (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) adds the following species [6]

  • Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871) -- yellow limpet : synonym of Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846)

References

  1. Gray (1833). Phil. Trans. roy. Soc., 774, 800.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Lottia Gray, 1833. Accessed 2018-11-01.
  3. "Lottia albicosta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. Crummett L. T. & Eernisse D. J. (2007). "Genetic evidence for the cryptic species pair, Lottia digitalis and Lottia austrodigitalis and microhabitat partitioning in sympatry". Marine Biology 152(1): 1–13. abstract
  5. OBIS : Lottia
  6. ITIS : Lottia

Further reading

  • Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99
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