Cellana
Sign in to saveCellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNacellida
- FamilyNacellidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 734
- With media
- 37
- Family
- Nacellidae
- Collections
- PRI, UCMP, CAS, USNM, AUM, UF
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, Japan, India, Thailand, New Zealand, Mariana Islands, French Polynesia
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Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.
==Distribution== This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, Hawaii (where they are known as ‘opihi and considered a delicacy) and around Australia and New Zealand. Species are also found around the coasts of Japan, the Red Sea, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa and the sub-Antartarctic Islands. One species, Cellana radiata, is cosmopolitan.
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