Erginus rubellus

Erginus rubellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Erginidae
Genus:	Erginus
Species:	E. rubellus
Binomial name
Erginus rubellus (O. Fabricius, 1780)
Synonyms [1]
Acmaea rubella Patella rubellaO. Fabricius, 1780 (original combination) Problacmaea rubella(O. Fabricius, 1780)

Erginus rubellus is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Erginidae, one of the families of true limpets. ^[1]

Distribution

• West Greenland and East Greenland ^[1]
• Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia ^[1]
• Iceland ^[1]

Ecology

Habitat of Erginus rubellus include infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary.

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference. ^[1]

1. Erginus rubellus (Fabricius O., 1780) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
• 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.

External links

• Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. Hafniae
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213