Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.
Distribution
This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, Hawaii (where they are known as âÂÂopihi and considered a delicacy) and around Australia and New Zealand. Species are also found around the coasts of Japan, the Red Sea, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa and the sub-Antartarctic Islands. One species, Cellana radiata, is cosmopolitan.
These sea snails feed by grazing on green macroalgae growing on rocky substrate in the intertidal zone. Some of these limpets can live up to 7 years, however most do not get older than 2âÂÂ3 years. They reproduce by broadcasting their spawn in large, yolky eggs in great numbers (between 20,000 for C. flava and C. denticulata to 230,000 for C. ornata).
Species
Species within the genus Cellana include:
- Cellana analogia <small>Iredale, 1940 </small>
- Cellana ardosiaea <small>(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)</small>
- â Cellana bosoensis <small>Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013</small>
- Cellana capensis <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- â Cellana carpenteriana <small>Skwarko, 1966</small>
- Cellana conciliata <small>Iredale, 1940 </small> - Rainbow limpet
- â Cellana cophina <small>Powell, 1973</small>
- Cellana craticulata <small>Suter, 1905</small>
- â Cellana cudmorei <small>Chapman & Gabriel, 1923</small>
- Cellana cylindrica <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- â Cellana deformis <small>(K. Martin, 1883)</small>Powell
- Cellana denticulata <small>Martyn, 1784</small>
- Cellana dira <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
- Cellana enneagona <small>(Reeve, 1854)</small>
- Cellana eucosmia <small>Pilsbry, 1891</small> (possibly synonym of C. grata)
- Cellana exarata - Hawaiian blackfoot opihi
- Cellana flava <small>Hutton, 1873</small>
- Cellana granostriata <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
- Cellana grata <small>Gould, 1859</small>
- Cellana grata stearnsi <small>Pilsbry, 1891 </small>
- â Cellana hentyi <small>Chapman & Gabriel, 1923</small>
- Cellana howensis <small>Iredale, 1940 Indo-Pacific </small>
- â Cellana igniculus <small>Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013</small>
- â Cellana kamatakiensis <small>Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013</small>
- Cellana karachiensis <small>Winckworth, 1930 Red Sea </small>
- â Cellana kobayashii <small>Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013</small>
- Cellana livescens <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
- Cellana mazatlandica <small>Sowerby, 1839 </small>
- Cellana melanostoma <small>Pilsbry, 1891</small>
- Cellana nigrolineata <small>Reeve, 1854</small>
- Cellana oliveri <small>Powell, 1955</small>
- Cellana orientalis <small>(Pilsbry, 1891)</small>
- Cellana ornata <small>Dillwyn, 1817</small>
- Cellana pricei <small>Powell, 1973 </small>
- Cellana radians <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Cellana radiata <small> I. von Born, 1778 </small>
- Cellana radiata capensis <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Cellana radiata radiata (<small>Born, 1778)</small>
- Cellana rota <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Cellana sandwicensis <small>(Pease, 1861)</small>
- Cellana solida <small>Blainville, 1825</small>
- Cellana sontica <small>Iredale, 1940</small>
- Cellana stellifera <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>
- Cellana strigilis <small>Powell, 1955</small>
- Cellana strigilis strigilis <small>Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841</small>
- Cellana strigilis bollonsi <small>Powell, 1955</small>
- Cellana strigilis chathamensis <small>(Pilsbry, 1891)</small>
- Cellana strigilis flemingi <small>Powell, 1955</small>
- Cellana strigilis oliveri <small>Powell, 1955</small>
- Cellana strigilis redimiculum <small>(Reeve, 1854)</small>
- â Cellana taberna <small>Powell, 1973</small>
- Cellana taitensis <small>Röding, 1798 </small>
- Cellana talcosa <small>Gould, 1846</small>
- Cellana testudinaria <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
- â Cellana thomsoni <small>Powell & Bartrum, 1929</small>
- Cellana toreuma <small>Reeve, 1855</small>
- Cellana tramoserica <small>Holten, 1802</small>
- Cellana turbator <small>Iredale, 1940 </small>
- Cellana vitiensis <small>Powell, 1973 </small>
- â Cellana yamamotoi <small>Kase, T. Nakano, Kurihara & Haga, 2013</small>
The sources given below, also mention the following species :
Species brought into synonymy:
- Cellana capensis <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>: synonym of Cellana radiata <small>(Born, 1778)</small>
- Cellana cernica <small>(Adams, 1869)</small>: synonym of Cellana livescens <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
- Cellana eudora <small>Iredale, 1940</small>: synonym of Cellana radiata orientalis <small>(Pilsbry, 1891)</small>
- Cellana garconi <small>(Deshayes, 1863)</small>: synonym of Cellana livescens <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
- Cellana hedleyi <small>W. R. B. Oliver, 1915</small>: synonym of Cellana craticulata <small>(Suter, 1905)</small>
- Cellana laticostata <small>(Blainville, 1825)</small>: synonym of Scutellastra laticostata <small>(Blainville, 1825)</small>
- Cellana sagittata <small> A. A. Gould, 1846 </small>: synonym of Cellana vitiensis <small>Powell, 1973</small>
- Cellana scopulina <small>W. R. B. Oliver, 1926</small>: synonym of Cellana craticulata <small>(Suter, 1905)</small>
- Cellana vulcanicus <small>W. R. B. Oliver, 1915</small>: synonym of Cellana craticulata <small>(Suter, 1905)</small>
References
External links
- Shell-bearing Mollusca: Gastropoda: Archeogastropoda & Mesogastropoda
- Goldstien S. J. (2005). "Phylogeography of the Cellana limpets of New Zealand: Investigating Barriers to Marine Dispersal and Historical Biogeography". Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 162 pp.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
- Powell A. W. B. (1973). The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 3(15): 75-206.
- Willassen E., Williams A. B. & Oskars T. R. (2016). "New observations of the enigmatic West African Cellana limpet (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nacellidae)". Marine Biodiversity Records 9: 60. .