Cellana

Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.[1]

This article is about the genus of sea snails. For the company, see Cellana (company).

Cellana
A shell of Cellana ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Patelloidea
Family: Nacellidae
Genus: Cellana
Adams, 1869
Type species
Nacella cernica
Adams, 1869
Synonyms
  • Bertinia Jousseaume, 1883
  • Granopatella Pallary, 1920
  • Helcion (Helcioniscus) Dall, 1871
  • Helcioniscus Dall, 1871
  • Nacella (Cellana) H. Adams, 1869 (original rank)

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:[1]

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

References
  1. WoRMS (2010). Cellana H. Adams, 1869. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205749 on 2010-10-31
  • 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.
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