Lottia edmitchelli Lipps, 1966:250
Rocky shore limpet
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acmaea mitchelli Lipps, 1963 (junior homonym); Acmaea edmitchelli Lipps, 1966; Collisella edmitchelli Lipps, 1966:250
Conservation Status
Extinct (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Last record: 1861
IUCN status: Extinct
Distribution
California, United States
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lipps, J. H. (1966). A new name for Acmaea mitchelli Lipps. The Veliger 9: 250.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Bouchet, P. (1996a). Collisella edmitchelli. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 July 2013.
Bouchet, P. 1996b. Collisella edmitchelli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T5119A11116006. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T5119A11116006.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Lindberg, David R. (1978). On the Taxonomic Affinities of Collisella edmitchelli (Lipps) (Gastropoda: Acmaeidae) a Late Pleistocene Limpet from San Nicolas Island, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 77(2): 65-70.
Lindberg, David R. (1984). A Recent specimen of Collisella edmitchelli from San Pedro, California (Mollusca: Acmaeidae). Southern California Academy of Sciences, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 83(3): 148-151.
Lipps, J. H. (1963). A new species of Acmaea (Archaeogastropoda) from the Pleistocene of San Nicolas Island, California. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 75: 1-15.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lottia edmitchelli (Lipps, 1966). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594478 on 2022-04-03
Powell, C. L. (2022). The extinct limpet Lottia edmitchelli (Lipps, 1963) from the Southern California Bight, U.S.A. PaleoBios 39(3): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5070/P93935774
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.