Cellana flava is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.
| Cellana flava | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Family: | Nacellidae |
| Genus: | Cellana |
| Species: | C. flava
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| Binomial name | |
| Cellana flava (Martyn, 1784)
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| Synonyms | |
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Patella flava Hutton, 1873 | |
This species is easily identified on the basis of the orange colour of its shell and the light coloured head and foot.
References
edit- ^ Funnell, Greig; et al. (January 2023). Todd, Amanda (ed.). Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021 (PDF) (Report). New Zealand Department of Conservation. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-99-118365-1. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99