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Lottia gigantea

Description

Lottia gigantea, common name the owl limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae. Its genome has been sequenced at the Joint Genome Institute.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottia_gigantea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)2297856https://www.gbif.org/species/2297856
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)90520https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=90520
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Lottiidae : Lottia : Lottia gigantea
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Patellogastropoda : Lottiidae : Lottia : Lottia gigantea
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classGastropodaCuvier 1797
subclassEogastropodaPonder and Lindberg 1996
orderPatellogastropodaLindberg 1986
superfamilyLottioideaGray 1840
familyLottiidaeGray 1840
genusLottiaGray 1833
speciesLottia giganteaGray 1834
Generic NameLottia
Scientific NameLottia gigantea Gray, 1834
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Lottia giganteaspeciesbelongs to Lottiastated without evidenceSowerby, 1834
Lottia giganteaspeciesbelongs to LottiaimpliedAddicott, 1959
Lottia giganteaspeciesbelongs to Lottiastated with evidenceLandau et al., 2016
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
Extant Size (PBDB)1 (100%)
First Recorded Appearance2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Motilityfacultatively mobile, attached (based on Lottiidae)
Visionlimited (based on Gastropoda)
Dietgrazer (based on Lottiidae)
Taphonomyaragonite (based on Gastropoda)
Primary Reference (PBDB)W. O. Addicott. 1959. Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1925:1-33
Common Name(s) Eulen-napfschnecke, Owl Limpet
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottia_gigantea

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Lottia gigantea albomaculata
subspecies		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Lottia gigantea gigantea
subspecies		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1834Lottia gigantea Sowerby
1959Lottia gigantea Addicott p. 15
2016Lottia gigantea Landau et al. p. 9

References

Addicott W. O. (1959) Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico, American Museum Novitates 1925, 1-33
Landau B. M., da Silva C. M., et al (2016) Systematics of the Gastropods of the Lower-Middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela, Bulletins of American Paleontology 389-390, 1-582
Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species
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. - via World Register of Marine Species
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218. - via World Register of Marine Species
Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. - via World Register of Marine Species
Cole, T. C. H. (2017) Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English: 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp - via Catalogue of Life
Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al., 1988: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16. vii + 277. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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