Giant Pinkray Limpet
Cymbula sanguinans
Cymbula sanguinans, the giant pinkray limpet, is a species of giant limpet, a marine mollusc in the family Patellidae. It is native to the coast of South Africa. At one time thought to be a subspecies of Cymbula miniata, molecular analysis has shown C. sanguinans warrants being treated as a full species, despite there being no obvious morphological differences between the two. This makes difficult the task of deciding which of the previous research studies refer to C. sanguinans, and which refer to C. miniata.
From the article Cymbula sanguinans on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Cymbula sanguinans is a very large limpet, with a shell length that can exceed 10 cm (4 in), but most individuals are rather smaller than this. The shell is oval, with the highest point of the cone about one third of the distance from the anterior end. The external surface has fine sculpturing and is cream-coloured with radial bands and streaks in brown or pinkish-brown; the interior is a similar colour, with a whitish muscle scar.
What it does
Cymbula sanguinans is a herbivore and grazes on algae, being completely dependent on feeding on the thalloid red alga, Hildenbrandia rubra. It is a territorial species, tending a patch of algae and driving away other limpets.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cymbula sanguinans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 565027.