Cellana


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 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.
These sea snails feed by grazing on green macroalgae growing on rocky substrate in the intertidal zone. Some of these limpets can live up to 7 years, however most do not get older than 2–3 years. They reproduce by broadcasting their spawn in large, yolky eggs in great numbers.

Species

Species within the genus Cellana include:
Cellana analogia Iredale, 1940 Cellana ardosiaea
The sources given below, also mention the following species : Cellana amplaCellana ardosioea Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841Cellana argentata Sowerby, 1839 Cellana enneagona Reeve, 1854 Cellana nigrisquamata Reeve, 1854
;Species brought into synonymy:Cellana capensis : synonym of Cellana radiata Cellana cernica : synonym of Cellana livescens Cellana eudora Iredale, 1940: synonym of Cellana radiata orientalis Cellana garconi : synonym of Cellana livescens Cellana hedleyi W. R. B. Oliver, 1915: synonym of Cellana craticulata Cellana laticostata : synonym of Scutellastra laticostata Cellana sagittata A. A. Gould, 1846 : synonym of Cellana vitiensis Powell, 1973Cellana scopulina W. R. B. Oliver, 1926: synonym of Cellana craticulata Cellana vulcanicus W. R. B. Oliver, 1915: synonym of ''Cellana craticulata''