Notoacmea

Notoacmea is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lottiidae, the true limpets.

Notoacmea
A shell of Notoacmea scopulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Notoacmea Iredale, 1915[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Acmaea (Chiazacmea) Chiazacmea Oliver, 1926 Conacmea Oliver, 1926 Notoacmea (Notoacmea) Iredale, 1915 Notoacmea (Subacmea) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 Notoacmea (Thalassacmea) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 Parvacmea Iredale, 1915 Subacmea Oliver, 1926 Thalassacmea Oliver, 1926

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are species within the genus Notoacmaea:[2]

• Notoacmea alta Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea badia (Oliver, 1926)
• Notoacmea biradiata (Reeve, 1855)
• Notoacmea cellanoides Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea conoidea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea corrodenda (May, 1920)
• Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea inconspicua (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843)
• Notoacmea mayi (May, 1923)
• Notoacmea parviconoidea (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea petterdi (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
• Notoacmea pileopsis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) - black edged limpet
• Notoacmea potae Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer, 2009
• Notoacmea rapida Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer, 2009
• Notoacmea scapha (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea scopulina Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea sturnus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
• Notoacmea subantarctica Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea subtilis (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea turbatrix Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer, 2009

A shell of Notoacmea mayi

A shell of Notoacmea persona

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also contains the following species with name in current use:[3]

• Notoacmea conoidea (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea septiformis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

The following list comes from Powell New Zealand Mollusca:[4]

• Notoacmea insessa - seaweed limpet
• Notoacmea paleacea - surfgrass limpet
• Notoacmea persona - mask limpet

Species brought into synonymy

• Notoacmea concinna (Lischke, 1870): synonym of Nipponacmea concinna (Lischke, 1870)
• Notoacmea depicta (Hinds, 1842) : synonym of Tectura depicta (Hinds, 1842)
• Notoacmea daedala Oliver, 1926: synonym of Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea daedala Iredale, 1915: synonym of Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea elongata Ponder & Creese, 1980: synonym of Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea explorata Dell, 1953: synonym of Maoricrater explorata (Dell, 1953)
• Notoacmea fascicularis (Menke, 1851): synonym of Lottia fascicularis (Menke, 1851)
• Notoacmea fenestrata (Reeve, 1855): synonym of Lottia fenestrata (Reeve, 1855)
• Notoacmea filosa (Carpenter, 1865): synonym of Lottia filosa (Carpenter, 1865)
• Notoacmea helmsi Iredale, 1915: synonym of Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Notoacmea schrenckii (Lischke, 1868): synonym of Nipponacmea schrenckii (Lischke, 1868)
• Notoacmea scutum (Rathke, 1833): synonym of Lottia scutum (Rathke, 1833)
• Notoacmea testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776): synonym of Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
• Notoacmea virescens Oliver, 1926: synonym of Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

References

1. Iredale T. (1915). Trans. N. Zealand Inst. 47: 428.
2. WoRMS : Notoacmea.
3. OBIS : Notoacmea
4. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1