Cellana flava

Cellana flava
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Patellogastropoda Suborder: Patellina Superfamily: Patelloidea Family: Patellidae Genus: Cellana Species: C. flava
Binomial name
Cellana flava (Martyn, 1784)
Synonyms
Patella flava Hutton, 1873 Helcioniscus radians flavus Suter, 1913

Cellana flava is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found on the east coast between East Cape and Dunedin, on intertidal rocks.

Shell description

The shell is large, solid, tall-conical, with rather distant, low, rounded, radial ribs, the surface otherwise smooth.

The shell is whitish to bright orange, both externally and internally.

The maximum shell length is 66 mm, width 54 mm, and height 29 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1