Lottia persona
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- Acmaea (Collisella) persona Rathke, 1833 (a junior synonym)
- Acmaea (Collisella) radiata Rathke, 1833 (a junior synonym)
- Acmaea persona Rathke, 1833 (original combination)
- Acmaea radiata Rathke, 1833
- Collisella borealis Lindberg, 1982
- † Collisella radiata (Rathke, 1833) (a junior synonym)
- Lottia borealis (Lindberg, 1982)
- Patella (Acmaea) persona (Rathke, 1833) (unaccepted combination)
- Patella textilis A. Gould, 1846 (junior subjective synonym)
- Tectura persona (Rathke, 1833) ·
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Lottia persona is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.{{WRMS species|456603|Lottia persona (Rathke, 1833)||8 April 2010}}
Description
L. persona is a large, moderately tall limpet growing to up to fifty millimetres long. The apex is not central, being about one third of the way along the shell which is dark olive-green with fine white markings and has fine radial ribs, though these have often been smoothed down by erosion. The anterior slope is straight or slightly concave.{{Cite web|url=http://seanet.stanford.edu/RockyShore/Limpets/index.html|title=Intertidal Limpets|last=Watanabe|first=James M.|website=seanet.stanford.edu|access-date=2016-08-02}}
Distribution
L. persona is found on the North American Pacific coast from Alaska to central California. It is a cryptic species, common to the high and mid-intertidal zones in sheltered rocky coasts. It is mostly found in crevices and caves and under overhangs. It is nocturnal, grazing on micro-algae when the rocks are wet.
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Category:Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Category:Taxa named by Martin Rathke
Category:Gastropods described in 1833
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