Collisella

Collisella
Lottia atrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Collisella
Dall, 1871[1]

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

This genus of shield limpets has been classified by some authors under the family Acmaeidae.[2]

This genus has become a synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833 [3]

Species

Lottia discors
Lottia stanfordiana

Species within the genus Colisella include:[4]

Species brought into synonymy

Synonyms:

References

  1. Dall W. H. (1871). "On the limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group". American Journal of Conchology 6: 227-282. page 245.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Collisella Dall, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153563 on 2012-05-15
  4. Gastropods.com
  5. 1 2 Sanders, Brenda M.; Christopher Hope; Virginia M Pascoe; Leslie S. Martin (1991). "Characterization of the Stress Protein Response in two Species of Collisella limpets with different Temperature Tolerances". Physiological Zoology. 64 (6): 1471–1481. JSTOR 30158225.

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