Notoacmea elongata
Shell of Notoacmea elongata (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Notoacmea
Species:
N. elongata
Binomial name
Notoacmea elongata
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Acmaea helmsi E. A. Smith, 1894
  • Acmaea helmsi Suter, 1913
  • Acmaea parviconoidea leucoma Suter, 1907
  • Notoacmea helmsi (E. A. Smith, 1894)
  • Notoacmea virescens Oliver, 1926
  • Patelloida elongata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Notoacmea elongata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in New Zealand.

References

  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Oliver, W. R. B. (1926). Australasian Patelloididae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 56: 547–582.
  • Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.


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