Lottia subrugosa

Lottia subrugosa
Lottia subrugosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Lottia
Species:	L. subrugosa
Binomial name
Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
Synonyms
Acmaea onychina (Gould, 1852) Acmaea subrugosa d'Orbigny, 1841 Collisella subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841) Helcion subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841) Lottia onychina Gould, 1852 Patella muelleri Dunker, 1875

Lottia subrugosa is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae. It is still designated under its synonyms Acmaea subrugosa or Collisella subrugosa in many textbooks. ^{[1] [2]}

Distribution and habitat

This species is found along the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, mostly in the mid-intertidal zone. ^[3] It is the most common limpet with large population sizes in the Brazilian midlittoral. It can fill the small gaps in mussel beds dominated by Brachidontes solisianus and Brachidontes darwinianus. ^[4] They are also very abundant in the regions dominated by the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera. ^[5]

Description

The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm

References

1. Malacolog : Lottia subrugosa
2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594482 on 2012-05-15
3. Tanaka, Marcel O.; Tiago E. M. Duque-Estrada; CLÁUDIA A. MAGALHÃES (2002). "Dynamics of the Acmaeid Limpet Collisella Subrugosa and Vertical Distribution of Size and Abundance along a Wave Exposure Gradient". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 68 (1): 55–64. doi:10.1093/mollus/68.1.55. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
4. Tanaka, Marcel O.; Cláudia A. Magalhães (2002). "Edge effects and succession dynamics in Brachidontes mussel beds" (PDF). Marine Ecology Progress Series. 237: 151–158. doi:10.3354/meps237151. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
5. MAGALHÃES, C.A.; TANAKA, M. O., DUQUE-ESTRADA, T.E.M. AND HARA, H. E. (1993). "Homing in Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny) - What do we know, Where do we go?". The Malacological Society of London. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)

• d'Orbigny, A. 1841. Mollusques. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5: 425-488, pls. 72-76, 79-80. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1841.]
• Juliana, José; Vera Nisaka Solferini (2007). "Population genetics of Collisella subrugosa (Patellogastropoda: Acmaeidae): evidence of two scales of population structure". Genetica. 130 (1): 73–82. doi:10.1007/s10709-006-0024-3. PMID 16897456. Retrieved 2010-07-23.

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