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Genus of molluscs
This article is about the genus of sea snails. For the company, see
Cellana (company) .
Cellana is a
genus of sea snails or
limpets ,
marine
gastropod
molluscs in the
family
Nacellidae , the true
limpets .
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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
Cellana conciliata
Cellana mazatlandica
Cellana rota
Species within the genus Cellana include:
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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 - Rainbow limpet
†
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 , 1784
Cellana dira (
Reeve , 1855)
Cellana enneagona (Reeve, 1854)
Cellana eucosmia
Pilsbry , 1891 (possibly synonym of C. grata )
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian blackfoot opihi
Cellana flava
Hutton , 1873
Cellana 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 , 1891
Cellana nigrolineata
Reeve , 1854
Cellana oliveri
Powell , 1955
Cellana 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 , 1825
Cellana sontica Iredale, 1940
Cellana stellifera
Gmelin , 1791
Cellana strigilis
Powell , 1955
†
Cellana taberna
Powell , 1973
Cellana taitensis
Röding , 1798
Cellana talcosa
Gould , 1846
Cellana testudinaria
Linnaeus ,
1758
†
Cellana thomsoni
Powell & Bartrum, 1929
Cellana toreuma
Reeve , 1855
Cellana 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 , 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Cellana .
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 .