Genus of molluscs
This article is about the genus of sea snails. For the company, see
Cellana (company) .
Cellana genus of sea snails or limpets , marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae , the true limpets .[ 1]
Distribution
This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, Hawaii (where they are known as ‘opihi and considered a delicacy) and around Australia and New Zealand . Species are also found around the coasts of Japan , the Red Sea , Mauritius , Madagascar , South Africa and the sub-Antartarctic Islands. One species, Cellana radiata
These sea snails feed by grazing on green macroalgae growing on rocky substrate in the intertidal zone . Some of these limpets can live up to 7 years, however most do not get older than 2–3 years. They reproduce by broadcasting their spawn in large, yolky eggs in great numbers (between 20,000 for C. flava and C. denticulata to 230,000 for C. ornata ).
Species
Cellana conciliata Cellana mazatlandica Cellana rota Species within the genus Cellana include:[ 1]
Cellana analogia Iredale , 1940 Cellana ardosiaea (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) † Cellana bosoensis Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013
Cellana capensis (Gmelin, 1791) † Cellana carpenteriana Skwarko, 1966
Cellana conciliata Iredale , 1940 † Cellana cophina Powell , 1973
Cellana craticulata Suter , 1905† Cellana cudmorei Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
Cellana cylindrica (Gmelin , 1791) † Cellana deformis (K. Martin, 1883) Powell
Cellana denticulata Martyn , 1784Cellana dira (Reeve , 1855) Cellana enneagona (Reeve, 1854) Cellana eucosmia Pilsbry , 1891C. grata )Cellana exarata opihi Cellana flava Hutton , 1873Cellana granostriata (Reeve , 1855) Cellana grata Gould , 1859† Cellana hentyi Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
Cellana howensis Iredale , 1940 Indo-Pacific † Cellana igniculus Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013
† Cellana kamatakiensis Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013
Cellana karachiensis Winckworth, 1930 Red Sea † Cellana kobayashii Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013
Cellana livescens (Reeve , 1855) Cellana mazatlandica Sowerby, 1839 Cellana melanostoma Pilsbry , 1891Cellana nigrolineata Reeve , 1854Cellana oliveri Powell , 1955Cellana orientalis (Pilsbry, 1891) Cellana ornata Dillwyn, 1817 Cellana pricei Powell , 1973 Cellana radians (Gmelin , 1791) Cellana radiata I. von Born, 1778
Cellana rota (Gmelin , 1791) Cellana sandwicensis (Pease, 1861) Cellana solida Blainville , 1825Cellana sontica Iredale, 1940 Cellana stellifera Gmelin , 1791Cellana strigilis Powell , 1955† Cellana taberna Powell , 1973
Cellana taitensis Röding , 1798 Cellana talcosa Gould , 1846Cellana testudinaria Linnaeus , 1758 † Cellana thomsoni Powell & Bartrum, 1929
Cellana toreuma Reeve , 1855Cellana tramoserica Holten, 1802 Cellana turbator Iredale , 1940 Cellana vitiensis Powell , 1973 † Cellana yamamotoi Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013
The sources given below, also mention the following species :
Species brought into synonymy
Cellana capensis (Gmelin , 1791) : synonym of Cellana radiata (Born, 1778) Cellana cernica (Adams , 1869) : synonym of Cellana livescens (Reeve , 1855) Cellana eudora Iredale , 1940Cellana radiata orientalis (Pilsbry, 1891) Cellana garconi (Deshayes, 1863) : synonym of Cellana livescens (Reeve , 1855) Cellana hedleyi W. R. B. Oliver, 1915 : synonym of Cellana craticulata (Suter, 1905) Cellana laticostata (Blainville, 1825) : synonym of Scutellastra laticostata (Blainville, 1825) Cellana sagittata A. A. Gould, 1846 : synonym of Cellana vitiensis Powell , 1973Cellana scopulina W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 : synonym of Cellana craticulata (Suter, 1905) Cellana vulcanicus W. R. B. Oliver, 1915 : synonym of Cellana craticulata (Suter, 1905)
References
External links
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Shell-bearing Mollusca: Gastropoda: Archeogastropoda & Mesogastropoda Goldstien S. J. (2005). "Phylogeography of the Cellana limpets of New Zealand: Investigating Barriers to Marine Dispersal and Historical Biogeography" . Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 162 pp.
Powell A. W. B. , New Zealand Mollusca , William Collins Publishers Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1 Powell A. W. B. (1973). The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae) . Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 3(15): 75-206.
Willassen E., Williams A. B. & Oskars T. R. (2016). "New observations of the enigmatic West African Cellana limpet (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nacellidae)". Marine Biodiversity Records 9 : 60. doi :10.1186/s41200-016-0059-9 .
