Cellana flava
Cellana flava is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Cellana flava | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Family: | Nacellidae |
Genus: | Cellana |
Species: | C. flava |
Binomial name | |
Cellana flava (Martyn, 1784) | |
Synonyms | |
Patella flava Hutton, 1873 |
This species is easily identified on the basis of the orange colour of its shell and the light coloured head and foot.
References
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- 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
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