Lottia Explained
Lottia is a genus of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lottiinae of the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Lottia :[1]
- Lottia abrolhosensis (Petuch, 1979)
- Lottia acutapex (S. S. Berry, 1960)
- Lottia albicosta (Adams, 1845)
- † Lottia alveus, (Conrad, 1831) - eelgrass limpet, became extinct in the 20th century
- Lottia angusta (Moskalev in Golikov & Scarlato, 1967)
- Lottia antillarum G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
- Lottia argrantesta Simison & Lindberg, 2003
- Lottia asmi (Middendorff, 1847) -- black limpet
- Lottia atrata (Carpenter, 1857)
- Lottia austrodigitalis (Murphy, 1978) This species is cryptic species and a sibling species with Lottia digitalis. Existence of Lottia austrodigitalis as separate species was genetically confirmed in 2007.[2]
- Lottia borealis (Lindberg, 1982) -- boreal limpet
- Lottia cassis (Eschscholtz, 1833)
- Lottia cellanica (Christiaens, 1980)
- Lottia conus (Test, 1945)
- Lottia cubensis (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia dalliana (Pilsbry, 1891)
- Lottia digitalis (Rathke, 1833) - ribbed limpet
- Lottia discors (Philippi, 1849)
- Lottia dorsuosa (Gould, 1859)
- Lottia edmitchelli (Lipps, 1963)
- Lottia emydia (Dall, 1914)
- Lottia fascicularis (Menke, 1851)
- Lottia fenestrata (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia filosa (Carpenter, 1865)
- Lottia formosa (Christiaens, 1980)
- Lottia gigantea G.B. Sowerby I, 1834 - owl limpet
- Lottia goshimai Nakayama, Sasaki & Nakano, 2017
- Lottia iani Scuderi, Nakano & Eernisse, 2021
- Lottia immaculata (Lindberg & McLean, 1981)
- Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846) -- unstable limpet
- Lottia jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1791) - Jamaica limpet
- Lottia kogamogai Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia langfordi (Habe, 1944)
- Lottia leucopleura (Gmelin, 1791) - black-rib limpet
- Lottia limatula (Carpenter, 1864) - file limpet
- Lottia lindbergi Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia luchuana (Pilsbry, 1901)
- Lottia marcusi (Righi, 1966)
- Lottia mesoleuca (Menke, 1851)
- Lottia mimica Lindberg & McLean, 1981
- Lottia mitella (Menke, 1847)
- Lottia mixta (Reeve, 1855)
- Lottia mortoni (Christiaens, 1980)
- Lottia noronhensis (E. A. Smith, 1890)
- Lottia onychitis (Menke, 1843)
- Lottia orbignyi (Dall, 1909)
- Lottia painei Lindberg, 1987
- Lottia paradigitalis (Fritchman, 1960)
- Lottia pediculus (Philippi, 1846)
- Lottia peitaihoensis (Grabau & S. G. King, 1928)
- Lottia pelta (Rathke, 1833) - shield limpet
- Lottia persona (Rathke, 1833)
- Lottia rothi (Lindberg & McLean, 1981)
- Lottia scabra (Gould, 1846) - rough limpet
- Lottia scutum (Rathke, 1833)
- Lottia septiformis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Lottia smithi Lindberg & McLean, 1981
- Lottia stanfordiana (Berry, 1957)
- Lottia strigatella (Carpenter, 1864)
- Lottia strongiana (Hertlein, 1958)
- Lottia subrotundata (Carpenter, 1865)
- Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1846)
- Lottia tenuisculptata Sasaki & Okutani, 1994
- Lottia tranquebarica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lottia triangularis (Carpenter, 1864) -- triangular limpet
- Lottia turveri (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)
- Lottia versicolor (Moskalev in Golikov & Scarlato, 1967)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Lottia cymbiola (Gould, 1846): synonym of Scurria variabilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1839)
- Lottia depicta (Hinds, 1842): synonym of Tectura depicta (Hinds, 1842)
- Lottia insessa (Hinds, 1842): synonym for Discurria insessa (Hinds, 1842)
- Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871): synonym of Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846)
- Lottia paleacea (Gould, 1853): synonym of Tectura paleacea (Gould, 1853)
- Lottia rosacea (Carpenter, 1864): synonym of Tectura rosacea (Carpenter, 1864)
- Lottia testudinalis (Müller, 1776): synonym of Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- Lottia variabilis (Sowerby, 1839): synonym of Scurria variabilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1839)
The following species are also: synonym of species in current use by the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database[3]
- Lottia areneosa (Gould, 1846)
- Lottia heroldi (Dunker, 1861)
- Lottia (Lottia) compressa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lottia (Lottia) patina (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)
- Lottia (Lottia) radiata (Eschscholtz in Rathke, 1833)
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) adds the following species[4]
- Lottia ochracea (Dall, 1871) -- yellow limpet : synonym of Lottia instabilis (Gould, 1846)
Further reading
- Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99
Notes and References
- MolluscaBase (2021). Lottia Gray, 1833. Accessed 20 August 2021
- Crummett L. T. & Eernisse D. J. (2007). "Genetic evidence for the cryptic species pair, Lottia digitalis and Lottia austrodigitalis and microhabitat partitioning in sympatry". Marine Biology 152(1): 1–13. abstract
- http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/14912 OBIS : Lottia
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=69731 ITIS : Lottia
