Asteracmea

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Asteracmea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Family: Acmaeidae
Genus: Asteracmea
Oliver, 1926
Species

See text.

Asteracmea is a genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.

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[edit] Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand and Australia.

[edit] Description

Asteracmea shells are minute, translucent, with the apex near central, smooth or with faint radial striae. The coloration is usually pink, either rayed or with a central stellate maculation.

The radula has the centrals approximate, and the laterals posterior to them in one row, the inner larger than the outer ones, and the marginals narrow.

[edit] Species

  • Asteracmea axiaerata
  • Asteracmea illibrata (J. C. Verco, 1906)
  • Asteracmea roseoradiata (J. C. Verco, 1912)
  • Asteracmea stowae
  • Asteracmea suteri (Iredale, 1915)

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