Cellana rota

Cellana rota
Five views of a shell of Cellana rota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Nacellidae
Genus: Cellana
Species: C. rota
Binomial name
Cellana rota
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Acmaea chathamensis Pilsbry, 1891
  • Helcioniscus rota (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Patella aster Reeve, 1855
  • Patella karachiensis Winckworth, 1930
  • Patella pharaonis Jousseaume, 1888
  • Patella rota Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
  • Patella variegata Reeve, 1842 (invalid: junior homonym of Patella variegata Röding, 1798, and P. variegata Blainville, 1825)

Cellana rota is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Cellana rota (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=707486 on 2014-10-29
Two more shells of the species


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