Notoacmea

Notoacmea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Order:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Acmaeidae
Genus:	Notoacmea Iredale, 1915
Species
See text.

Notoacmea is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Description

Notoacmea shells are moderately large and rather thin, with a coarse textured outer surface, and within, a thin layer of enamel, leaving a dark border of the outer layer. The radula has long, curved, and erect central and inner laterals, and small and apparently functionless outer laterals.

Species

• Notoacmea badia Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea depicta (painted limpet)
• Notoacmea fenestrata (fenestrate limpet)
• Notoacmea helmsi (E. A. Smith, 1894)
• Notoacmea insessa (seaweed limpet)
• Notoacmea paleacea (surfgrass limpet)
• Notoacmea parviconoida (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea persona (mask limpet)
• Notoacmea pileopsis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (black edged limpet)
  • Notoacmea pileopsis pileopsis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Notoacmea pileopsis cellanoides (Oliver, 1926)
  • Notoacmea pileopsis sturnus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
• Notoacmea scopulina Oliver, 1926
• Notoacmea scutum (plate limpet)
• Notoacmea subtilis (Suter, 1907)
• Notoacmea testudinalis (plant limpet)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1