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Lottia pelta Shield Limpet

Lottia pelta is commonly referred to as Shield Limpet. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Roger Steeb, USA

Lottia pelta in the Deer Group Islands, Barkley Sound, west side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia 2011


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lexID:
15188 
AphiaID:
456602 
Scientific:
Lottia pelta 
German:
Schild-Napfschnecke 
English:
Shield Limpet 
Category:
Escargots de mer 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Not assigned (Order) > Lottiidae (Family) > Lottia (Genus) > pelta (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Rathke, ), 1833 
Occurrence:
Russland, Alaska (Western Atlantic), Canada Eastern Pacific, Greece, Japan, Mexico (East Pacific), Northeast Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, USA 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Size:
5,5 cm 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-09-21 19:22:00 

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Lottia pelta (Rathke, 1833)

Lottia pelta, common name the shield limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae.

Can be found in the intertidal zone on rocks and kelp holdfas. Its a algae grazer.

Similar to Lottia scutum.

One of its predators is the murex snail Paciocinebrina lurida.

Synonymised names:
Acmaea (Collisella) cassis (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Acmaea (Collisella) pelta (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Acmaea cassis Rathke, 1833 · unaccepted
Acmaea cassis pelta Rathke, 1833 · unaccepted (unaccepted rank)
Acmaea pelta Rathke, 1833 · unaccepted (original combination)
Collisella (Collisella) pelta (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted
Collisella cassis (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Collisella pelta shirogai Habe & Ki. Ito, 1965 · unaccepted
Patella (Acmaea) cassis (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Patella (Acmaea) pelta (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Patelloida cassis (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Patelloida cassis pelta (Rathke, 1833) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

External links

  1. Invertebrates of the Salish Sea (en). Abgerufen am 21.09.2022.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 21.09.2022.

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Lottia pelta in the Deer Group Islands, Barkley Sound, west side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia 2011
Lottia pelta (Carmel Bay) 2008
Lottia pelta with green algae and two Lottia scabra on top (Carmel Bay) 2008

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