Scurria variabilis

Scurria variabilis
Scurria variabilis shells
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Scurria
Species:	S. variabilis
Binomial name
Scurria variabilis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839)
Synonyms
Acmaea coffea (Reeve, 1855) Acmaea leucophaea Philippi, 1846 Acmaea nisoria Philippi, 1846 (junior synonym) Acmaea parasitica (d'Orbigny, 1841) Acmaea punctatissima Philippi, 1846(junior synonym) Acmaea variabilis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839) Collisella huppeana Ramírez-Böhme, 1974 Collisella philippiana Ramírez-Böhme, 1974 Collisella silvana Ramírez-Böhme, 1974 Collisella variabilis Marincovich, 1973 Lottia cymbiola Gould, 1846 Lottia variabilis G. B. Sowerby I, 1839 Patella coffea Reeve, 1855 Patella parasitica d'Orbigny, 1841 Patella penicillata (Reeve, 1855) · Patella variabilis (Reeve, 1855) Scurria parasitica (d'Orbigny, 1841)(junior synonym)

Scurria variabilis is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Description

Five views of a shell of Scurria variabilis

References

• Ramírez-Böhme [= Ramírez Boehme] J. (1974) Nuevas especies chilenas de Lucapina, Fissurella y Collisella (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Boletin, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural [Santiago de Chile] 33: 15-34.
• Ni IH. & Qian PY. (1999). Study on the suitability of Shelter Island Area to be established as marine park or marine reserve. Final report. Submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government.
• 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

External links

• Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I]. In: The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28. London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl.
• Philippi, R.A. (1846). Diagnosen einiger neuen Conchylien-Arten. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3(2): 19–24 [28 February]; 3(4): 49–55
• Marincovich, L. (1973). Intertidal Mollusks of Iquique, Chile. Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History, Science Bulletin. 16: 1-49, 102 figs
• Gould, A. A. (1846). Descriptions of new shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 141-145, 148-152
• Reeve, L. A. (1854-1855). Monograph of the genus Patella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pls 1-42 and unpaginated tex. L. Reeve & Co., London.