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    • true limpets
  • Scientific names
    • Patellogastropoda

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Recent Observations

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Observer

icosahedron

Date

May 16, 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Description

With bonus smaller limpets; most of these so encumbered.

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Observer

tessaf

Date

May 13, 2012 05:16 PM PDT

Description

The striped shell is the shield limpet. For more information on the habitat, vegetation, and weather of this beach, please see the journal entry for May 13, 2012 here on iNaturalist. I only saw a few of these limpets of this same coloration on the rocks in the tide pools at this beach. There were others, but they were of different species or had different coloration. This limpet caught my eye because of its odd black stripes. Limpets are a species of sea snail that have very simple, flat shells. They stick themselves to rocks, just like this one in particular was.

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What

true limpets Order Patellogastropoda

Observer

andymj

Date

Apr 21, 2012

Description

I saw several of these limpets nestled among the barnacles attached to the larger rocks at high tide.

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Description from Wikipedia

The name Limpet is used for many kinds of mostly saltwater but also freshwater snails, specifically those that have a simple shell which is more or less broadly conical in shape, and which is either not coiled, or appears not to be coiled, in the adult snail.

No range data available.