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unusual facts about limpet



Banbury Springs lanx

This freshwater limpet is endemic to the US State of Idaho, where it is known from a 10-kilometer stretch of the Snake River.

C. radians

Cellana radians, the golden limpet, a marine gastropod species found in seas around New Zealand and Australia

Digestive system of gastropods

A number of species have developed special adaptations to feeding, such as the "drill" of some limpets, or the harpoon of the neogastropod genus Conus.

Dollo's law of irreversibility

Nevertheless, a few genera in the slipper snail family (Calyptraeidae) may have changed their developmental timing (heterochrony) and regained a coiled shell from a limpet-like shell.

Eelgrass limpet

The eelgrass limpet now appears to be totally extinct, but up until the late 1920s, this species was apparently quite common, and was easy to find at low tide in eelgrass beds, in many sheltered localities on the northeastern seaboard of North America.

This small limpet used to live on the blades of Zostera marina, a species of seagrass.

Emarginula fissura

The slit limpet is a common keyhole limpet and can be found along the eastern Atlantic, west European coasts, as far north as Norway and the Faroe Islands and south to the Canary Islands.

Limpet mine

An example of the use of limpet mines by British special forces was in Operation Frankton which had the objective of disabling and sinking merchant shipping moored at Bordeaux, France in 1942.

Max Manus

In Norway he resumed his organizational work and made various sabotage attempts on ships in the Oslofjord with home-designed limpet mines and even ‘swimmer-assisted torpedoes’.

N. fenestrata

Notoacmea fenestrata, the fenestrate limpet, a sea snail species in the genus Notoacmea

Orthasterias

The rainbow star is a predator and feeds on a range of invertebrates including gastropod molluscs, limpets, bivalves, brachiopods, chitons, barnacles and tunicates.

Oxyjulis californica

The diet of the fish is composed of invertebrates, including marine worms, bryozoans, crustaceans, dove snails, limpets, fish larvae, and squid.

Pyropelta

The name Pyropelta is from the Greek; it means "fire limpet" because these small deepwater limpets live near hot hydrothermal vents and similar habitat.

Ralfsia verrucosa

Round the coasts of South Africa, Ralfsia verrucosa enjoys a mutual relationship with the limpet Scutellastra longicosta.

Siphonaria compressa

This small false limpet lives on the leaves of the marine plant, eelgrass.

Tectura palacea

The shell dimensions are narrow to correspond with the limpet's habitat: the narrow blades of surfgrasses in the genus Phyllospadix, found at low tide levels.


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