Biology:Notoacmea elongata

Short description: Species of gastropod

Notoacmea elongata
Shell of Notoacmea elongata (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Notoacmea
Species:	N. elongata
Binomial name
Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
Acmaea helmsi E. A. Smith, 1894 Acmaea helmsi Suter, 1913 Acmaea parviconoidea leucoma Suter, 1907 Notoacmea helmsi (E. A. Smith, 1894) Notoacmea virescens Oliver, 1926 Patelloida elongata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Notoacmea elongata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in New Zealand.

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1
• Oliver, W. R. B. (1926). Australasian Patelloididae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 56: 547–582.
• Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
• Smith, E. A. (1894). On some new species of shells from New Zealand and Australia, and remarks upon some forms occurring in deep-water off Sydney. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 57–60.

Wikidata ☰ Q7063109 entry