Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
Alternative spelling: Patella (Lottia)
Synonyms: Acmaea (Collisella) Dall 1871, Collisella Dall 1871, Collisellacmaea Christiaens 1975, Lecania Carpenter 1866, Tecturella Carpenter 1860, Tecturina Carpenter 1861
Parent taxon: Lottiidae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016
See also Abbott 1974, Bouchet et al. 2005, Hendy 2021, Oldroyd 1925, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Acmaea, Erginus, Lottiinae, Notoacmea, Patelloida, Tecturinae
Subtaxa: Collisella (Conoidacmea) Lottia acra Lottia actina Lottia asmi Lottia depicta Lottia digitalis Lottia edmitchelli Lottia gigantea Lottia insessa Lottia instabilis Lottia limatula Lottia orbignyi Lottia paleacea Lottia pelta Lottia persona Lottia scabra Lottia scutum Lottia strigatella Lottia subrugosa Patella (Lottia) scabra
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), Mexico (30), United States (60: California), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (4), Japan (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
Total: 103 collections including 280 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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