Atalacmea fragilis

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Atalacmea fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Suborder: Nacellina
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Acmaeidae
Genus: Atalacmea
Species: A. fragilis
Binomial name
Atalacmea fragilis
(Sowerby, 1823)
Synonyms

Patella fragilis Sowerby, 1823
Patella unguis-almae Lesson, 1830
Patella solandri Colenso, 1844

Acmaea fragilis Suter, 1913

Atalacmea fragilis is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acmaeidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This limpet is endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This species is found at depths of between 30 and 90 m.

[edit] Description

Exterior shell coloration is pale greenish, regularly, concentrically ringed with narrow olive-brown stripes. The interior is bright to suffused emerald-green, with the brown external pattern showing through at the margin, and in parts of the muscle attachment mark on the underside of the shell.

Length is up to 15 mm, width up to 12 mm, and height up to 2 mm.

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