''Cellana'' is a

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of sea snails or

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. This general category of conical shell is known as "patelliform" (dish-shaped). Existing within the class Gastropoda, ...

s, marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the

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Nacellidae Nacellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Patellogastropoda. Taxonomy Nacellidae was the only family in the superfamily Nacelloidea as described by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),. H ...

, the true

s.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

Distribution

This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical

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oceans,

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(where they are known as ''‘opihi'' and considered a delicacy) and around

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and

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

. Species are also found around the coasts of

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, the

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and the sub-Antartarctic Islands. One species, '' Cellana radiata'', is cosmopolitan. These sea snails feed by grazing on green macroalgae growing on rocky

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in the

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. 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: * '' 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''

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, 1905 * † '' Cellana cudmorei'' Chapman & Gabriel, 1923 * '' Cellana cylindrica'' (

Gmelin Gmelin may refer to: * Karl Christian Gmelin, Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis, Alsatica et confinium regionum cis- et transrhenania'' (1806) * Charles Gmelin (1872–1950), British Olympic athlete * ...

, 1791) * † '' Cellana deformis'' (K. Martin, 1883)Powell * ''

Cellana denticulata ''Cellana denticulata'', or the denticulate limpet, is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets. It is endemic to New Zealand New Zealand () is an island count ...

'' Martyn, 1784 * '' Cellana dira'' ( Reeve, 1855) * '' Cellana enneagona'' (Reeve, 1854) * '' Cellana eucosmia''

Pilsbry Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a cent ...

, 1891 (possibly synonym of ''C. grata'') * '' Cellana exarata'' - Hawaiian blackfoot ''opihi'' * '' Cellana flava'' Hutton, 1873 * '' Cellana granostriata'' ( Reeve, 1855) * '' Cellana grata'' Gould, 1859 ** '' Cellana grata stearnsi''

, 1891 * † '' 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''

, 1891 * '' Cellana nigrolineata'' Reeve, 1854 * '' Cellana oliveri'' Powell, 1955 * '' Cellana orientalis'' (Pilsbry, 1891) * ''

Cellana ornata ''Cellana ornata'' is a species of true limpet, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Cellana ornata (Dillwyn, 1817). In: Mollu ...

'' Dillwyn, 1817 * '' Cellana pricei'' Powell, 1973 * '' Cellana radians'' (

, 1791) * '' Cellana radiata'' I. von Born, 1778 ** '' Cellana radiata capensis'' (

, 1791) ** '' Cellana radiata radiata'' (Born, 1778) * '' Cellana rota'' (

, 1791) * '' Cellana sandwicensis'' (Pease, 1861) * '' Cellana solida'' Blainville, 1825 * '' Cellana sontica'' Iredale, 1940 * '' Cellana stellifera''

, 1791 * '' Cellana strigilis'' Powell, 1955 ** '' Cellana strigilis strigilis'' Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841 ** '' Cellana strigilis bollonsi'' Powell, 1955 ** '' Cellana strigilis chathamensis'' (

, 1891) ** '' Cellana strigilis flemingi'' Powell, 1955 ** '' Cellana strigilis oliveri'' Powell, 1955 ** '' Cellana strigilis redimiculum'' ( Reeve, 1854) * † '' Cellana taberna'' Powell, 1973 * '' Cellana taitensis'' Röding, 1798 * '' Cellana talcosa'' Gould, 1846 * '' Cellana testudinaria''

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...

* † '' 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 : * '' Cellana ampla'' * '' Cellana ardosioea'' Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841 * '' Cellana argentata'' Sowerby, 1839 * '' Cellana enneagona'' Reeve, 1854 * '' Cellana nigrisquamata'' Reeve, 1854 **'' Cellana profunda mauritiana''

, 1891 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Cellana capensis'' (

, 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 * 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. . {{Taxonbar, from=Q3167443 Nacellidae