Genus Cellana Adams, 1869

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• Cellana Adams, H. 1869. Descriptions of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869: 272–275, pl. 19 [273] [first introduced as a subgenus of Nacella Schumacher, 1817].

  Type species:

   Nacella (Cellana) cernica Adams, 1869 by monotypy.
• Helcioniscus Dall, W.H. 1871. On the Limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group. American Journal of Conchology 6(3): 227-282 [277] [as Patella capensis Gmelin, 1791; Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Offprinted for advance distribution: 5; also declared new by Dall, 1871].

  Type species:

   Patella variegata Reeve, 1842 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [147]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Bird, C.E., Holland, B.S., Bowen, B.W. & Toonen, R.J. 2011. Diversification of sympatric broadcast-spawning limpets (Cellana spp.) within the Hawaiian archipelago. Molecular Ecology 20: 2128–2141

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]

Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [431]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [38]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [45]

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)

Nakano, T. & Sasaki, T. 2011. Recent advances in molecular phylogeny, systematics and evolution of patellogastropod limpets. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 203–217 (reviewed)

Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [147]

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