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Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.




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, is cosmopolitan.
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



Species within the genus Cellana include:

The sources given below, also mention the following species :

Cellana ampla
Cellana ardosioea Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841
Cellana argentata Sowerby, 1839
Cellana enneagona Reeve, 1854
Cellana nigrisquamata Reeve, 1854
Cellana profunda mauritiana Pilsbry, 1891
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, 1940: synonym of Cellana 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, 1973
Cellana 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



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.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Cellana
• Cellana exarata
• Cellana (company)
• Cellana oliveri
• Cellana grata
• Cellana testudinaria
• Cellana sandwicensis
• Cellana denticulata
• Cellana ornata
• Cellana strigilis