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

Lottia
Lottia gigantea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Patellogastropoda
Family:Lottiidae
Subfamily:Lottiinae
Tribe:Lottiini
Genus:Lottia
Gray, 1833 [1]
Species

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Synonyms[citation needed]
  • 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

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