Species Scutellastra peronii (Blainville, 1825)

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Species Scutellastra peronii (Blainville, 1825)

Peron's Limpet, Scaly Limpet

Compiler and date details

July 2014 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia. David Lindberg reviewed the group.

Patella peronii Blainville, H.M.D. de 1825. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris & Strassburg : Levrault Vol. 34 319 pp. [111].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella diemenensis Philippi, R.A. 1848. Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5(II): 161-176 [162].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella ustulata Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Patella. pls 1-42 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : Reeve & Co. Vol. 8 unnumbered pages. [published Jan 1855] [pl. 31, figs 88a, b].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella aculeata Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Patella. pls 1-42 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : Reeve & Co. Vol. 8 unnumbered pages. [published Jan 1855] [pl. 32, fig. 90].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella squamifera Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Patella. pls 1-42 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : Reeve & Co. Vol. 8 unnumbered pages. [published Jan 1855] [pl. 32, fig. 94].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella tasmanica Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [157].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].
Patella hepatica Verco, J.C. 1906. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 205-224 [207] [non P. and G.].
Secondary source:
Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NSW to Shark Bay, WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Exposed coast, lower intertidal, marine, rockplatform, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among Pyura sp. in the lower intertidal zone and among macroalgae haptors in the shallow subtidal Macpherson, J.H. 1955. Preliminary revision of the families Patellidae and Acmaeidae in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 67: 229–256 [234].

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [291] (as P. peronii and Patellanax squamifera)

Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [239] (as Patella squamifera)

Lindberg, D.R. 2007. Reproduction, ecology, and evolution of the Indo-Pacific Limpet Scutellastra flexuosa. Bulletin of Marine Science 81(2): 219–234 (included in analysis)

Nakano, T. & Ozawa, T. 2007. Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and Palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 79–99 (included in analysis)

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [29]

Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [136]

Verco, J.C. 1906. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 205-224 [207] (as Patella aculeata Reeve, 1855)

Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part V. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 99-110 [Date published Dec.] [99] (as Patella ustulata)

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [78] (Scaly Limpet)

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [64] (used for Patellanax peronii) (Peron's Limpet)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
09-May-2012	EOGASTROPODA	09-May-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
09-May-2012		25-Apr-2012	MOVED
		15-Jul-2014	MODIFIED

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