Striate Limpet
Patelloida striata
- Usual depth0 m
- Water temperature20–30 °C
- Best monthsFebruary and May
- How commonRare
About this species
Patelloida striata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Patelloida striata”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 5 records
- June: 1 records
- July: 2 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 0 m · Deepest record: 0 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Striate Limpet
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- リュウキュウアオガイ
- Simplified Chinese
- 射線青螺
Other scientific names: Acmaea striata, Collisella striata
Similar species
- Pacific sugar limpet
Patelloida saccharina
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 44 open-data records from 1834 to 2016.
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