Cellana strigilis
Appearance
Cellana strigilis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
Family: | Nacellidae |
Genus: | Cellana |
Species: | C. strigilis
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Binomial name | |
Cellana strigilis Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841
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Cellana strigilis is a species of large limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
Baden Powell listed several subspecies in his 1979 New Zealand Mollusca, but these are no longer accepted.[2]
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Description
[edit]The shell attains a length of 80mm, its width 68mm its height 32mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic in New Zealand: Stewart Island, Foveaux Strait, and the east coast of the South Island up to Kaikōura. Also off Auckland, Snares Island and Campbell Island.
References
[edit]- ^ "Cellana strigilis (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Powell, Arthur William Baden (1979). New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land, and Freshwater Shells. Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-216906-6.
- Penniket, J.R. Aug/1988 The Genus Cellana in New Zealand, Poirieria, 15(5)
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