Lottia edmitchelli

† Lottia edmitchelli was a species of limpet in the family Lottiidae. It was native to the coast of Southern California, where it may have been endemic. Specimens are known from San Nicolas Island, one of the Channel Islands of California, and from San Pedro in the city of Los Angeles.[4]

Lottia edmitchelli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:
Lottioidea
Family:
Lottiidae
Genus:
Lottia
Species:
L. edmitchelli
Binomial name
Lottia edmitchelli
(Lipps, 1963)
Synonyms

Collisella edmitchelli (Lipps, 1963)[2][3]

The specimens from San Nicolas Island lived during the late Pleistocene.[5] The San Pedro specimen was a fresh shell collected between 1861 and 1863.[4] No other fresh specimens have been found since, and the species is thought to be extinct. It is a "neoextinction", one that occurred relatively recently. It may have become extinct because it lived in a specific and fragile habitat that was rapidly degraded and destroyed by human activity as the human population of Southern California grew.[6]

References
  1. Bouchet, P. 1996. Collisella edmitchelli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 February 2016.
  2. Collisella edmitchelli. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
  3. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Lottia edmitchelli (Lipps, 1963). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species.
  4. Lindberg, D. R. (1984). A recent specimen of Collisella edmitchelli from San Pedro, California (Mollusca: Acmaeidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 83(3), 148-151.
  5. Lindberg, D. 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, 65-70.
  6. Carlton, James T. (1993). Neoextinctions of marine invertebrates. American Zoologist 33(6) 499-509.


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