Lottia subrugosa
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Lottia subrugosa 01.jpg
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| taxon = Lottia subrugosa
| authority = (d'Orbigny, 1841)
| synonyms =
- Acmaea onychina (Gould, 1852)
- Acmaea subrugosa d'Orbigny, 1841
- Collisella subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Helcion subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Lottia onychina Gould, 1852
- Patella muelleri Dunker, 1875
}}
Lottia subrugosa is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae. It is still designated under its synonyms Acmaea subrugosa or Collisella subrugosa in many textbooks.[http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=21 Malacolog : Lottia subrugosa]Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lottia subrugosa (d'Orbigny, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594482 on 2012-05-15
Distribution and habitat
This species is found along the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, mostly in the mid-intertidal zone.{{cite journal|doi=10.1093/mollus/68.1.55|last=Tanaka|first=Marcel O. |author2=Tiago E. M. Duque-Estrada |author3=CLÁUDIA A. MAGALHÃES|title=Dynamics of the Acmaeid Limpet Collisella Subrugosa and Vertical Distribution of Size and Abundance along a Wave Exposure Gradient |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies|year=2002|volume=68|issue=1|pages=55–64|doi-access=free}} It is the most common limpet with large population sizes in the Brazilian midlittoral. It can fill the small gaps in mussel beds dominated by Brachidontes solisianus and Brachidontes darwinianus.{{cite journal|doi=10.3354/meps237151|last=Tanaka|first=Marcel O.|author2=Cláudia A. Magalhães |title=Edge effects and succession dynamics in Brachidontes mussel beds|journal=Marine Ecology Progress Series|year=2002|volume=237|pages=151–158|url=https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2002/237/m237p151.pdf|accessdate=2010-07-26|bibcode=2002MEPS..237..151T|doi-access=free}} They are also very abundant in the regions dominated by the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera.{{cite journal|last=Magalhães|first=C.A.|author2=Tanaka, M. O.|author3=Duque-Estrada, T.E.M.|author4=Hara, H. E.|title=Homing in Collisella subrugosa (Orbigny) - What do we know, Where do we go?|journal=The Malacological Society of London|year=1993|url=http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/Malacological%20Bulletin/BULL41/LIMPETS2.htm#Begin|access-date=2010-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105123900/http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/Malacological%20Bulletin/BULL41/LIMPETS2.htm#Begin|archive-date=2010-11-05|url-status=dead}}
Description
The shell size is between 16 and 30 mm
References
{{Reflist}}
- d'Orbigny, A. 1841. Mollusques. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5: 425–488, pls. 72–76, 79–80. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1841.]
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s10709-006-0024-3|last=Juliana |first=José|author2=Vera Nisaka Solferini |title=Population genetics of Collisella subrugosa (Patellogastropoda: Acmaeidae): evidence of two scales of population structure|journal=Genetica|year=2007|volume=130|issue=1|pages=73–82|pmid=16897456}}
File:Collisella subrugosa 003.jpg|apical view
File:Collisella subrugosa 002.jpg|basal view
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