Patella vulgata

Patella vulgata
Patella vulgata
Patella vulgata on a rock in Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Patella
Species: P. vulgata
Binomial name
Patella vulgata
Linnaeus, 1758

Patella vulgata, colloquially known as the common limpet or Common European Limpet[1] is an edible species of sea snail with gills, a typical true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Patellidae. It is endemic to the waters off western Europe.[2]

  • Four Patella vulgata limpets on a rock in northwestern Galicia. One turned over to show the underside and muscular foot.

  • Common limpet shells from Wales

  • Patella vulgata in litoral of the Finistère, near Porspoder - the region affected by the Amoco Cadiz tanker disaster in 1978.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_6.html
  2. ^ Oliver, A.P.H. (2004). Guide to Seashells of the World. Buffalo: Firefly Books. 28.
  • Lespinet, Nederbragt, Cassan, Dictus, Van Loon, et al. Characterisation of two snail genes in the gastropod mollusc Patella vulgata. Implications for understanding the ancestral function of the snail-related genes in Bilateria. 2002.

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