R/V Yellowfin Cruise off San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., CA, 2/21/03

Yellowfin Image

The acmaeid limpet, Acmaea funiculata Carpenter, 1864 (formerly Niveotectura funiculata), has lateral teeth with blunt tips adapted for grazing on coralline algae (McLean, 1996) as can be seen from the radular scrapings in this image. This species was treated as a member of the genus Niveotectura by Lindberg and Marincovich (1988), but has since been returned to Acmaea (see Lindberg, 2007). Click here for display of a higher resolution of this image.

Citations

Lindberg, D.R. and L. Marincovich. 1988. New species of limpets from the Neogene of Alaska (Patellogastropoda: Mollusca). Arctic 41(3): 167-172.

Lindberg, D.R. 2007. Patellogastropoda. Pp. 753-761, in: Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon, 4th Ed. J. T. Carlton (Ed.). University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

McLean, J.H. 1996. The Prosobranchia in (P.H. Scott, J.A. Blake, and A. Lissner, eds.) Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 9. The Mollusca Part 2 - The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, Calif.

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