Notoacmea elongata
Shell of Notoacmea elongata (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Notoacmea
Species:	N. elongata
Binomial name
Notoacmea elongata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
Acmaea helmsi E. A. Smith, 1894 Acmaea helmsi Suter, 1913 Acmaea parviconoidea leucoma Suter, 1907 Notoacmea helmsi (E. A. Smith, 1894) Notoacmea virescens Oliver, 1926 Patelloida elongata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Notoacmea elongata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in New Zealand.

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Oliver, W. R. B. (1926). Australasian Patelloididae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 56: 547–582.
• 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
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

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• Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
• Smith, E. A. (1894). On some new species of shells from New Zealand and Australia, and remarks upon some forms occurring in deep-water off Sydney. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 57–60.