Notoacmea alta Tall Limpet

Notoacmea alta is commonly referred to as Tall Limpet. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Simon Grove, Australia

Tall limpet, Notoacmea alta, Taroona, Tasmania, June 2015 - CC BY Simon Grove

Tall limpet attached to a beaked mussel with a blue mussel in the background.
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lexID:: 16822
AphiaID:: 456620

Scientific:: Notoacmea alta
German:: Große Napfschnecke
English:: Tall Limpet

Category:

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Not assigned (Order) > Lottiidae (Family) > Notoacmea (Genus) > alta (Species)
Initial determination:: W. R. B. Oliver, 1926

Occurrence:: Australia, Tasmania (Australia)
Marine Zone:: Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters
Sea depth:: Meter
Habitats:: Coastal waters, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Rocky shores, Rock coasts, Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water
Size:: 0,8 cm
Temperature:: 50 °F - 64.4 °F (10°C - 18°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Notoacmea alta
Große Napfschnecke
Notoacmea badia
Notoacmea cellanoides
Napfschnecke
Notoacmea conoidea
Notoacmea corrodenda
Erodierte Napfschnecke
Notoacmea daedala
Notoacmea elongata
Schlamm Napfschnecke
Notoacmea flammea
Notoacmea mayi
Notoacmea parviconoidea
Notoacmea petterdi
Petterds Napfschnecke
Notoacmea pileopsis
Filzhut-Napfschnecke, Schwarz umrandete Napfschnecke
Notoacmea potae
Notoacmea rapida
Notoacmea scapha
Notoacmea scopulina
Notoacmea sturnus
Notoacmea subantarctica
Notoacmea subtilis
Notoacmea turbatrix

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2024-10-05 17:12:24
Last edit:: 2024-12-04 14:15:18

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Notoacmea alta W. R. B. Oliver, 1926

Notoacmea alta is a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Synonymised names
Notoacmea (Conacmea) alta W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 · unaccepted
Notoacmea (Conacmea) corrosa W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Notoacmea corrosa W. R. B. Oliver, 1926 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

External links

Atlas of Living Australia (en). Abgerufen am 05.10.2024.
sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 05.10.2024.

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Commonly

Tall limpet, Notoacmea alta, Taroona, Tasmania, June 2015 - CC BY Simon Grove

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