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| shelled snails text index | photo index |
| Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Limpets |
| Various
kinds of limpets How to tell them apart? updated Aug 2020 Limpets Look-alike Different kinds of limpets may look very similar from above, especially when the shell is covered with encrusting algae or organisms. But they look very different underneath. Please don't pry limpets off the rocks. They cling so tightly that you will hurt them if you do so. These photos were taken by gently encouraging the limpets to move onto the glass. |
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There
is no hole
at the top of the shell. |
There
is no hole
at the top of the shell. |
There
is no hole
at the top of the shell. |
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| True limpets breathe through gills. This one has a ring of gill leaflets along the edge of its body | True limpets breathe through gills. This one has one feathery gill on the side of the body. | False limpets breathe through lungs instead of gills. |
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Chiton
Order Placophora |
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| These
true limpets have a hole at the top of the shell. |
These
true limpets have a body that is much larger than the shell. |
This is not a limpet, but a strange kind of mollusc with 8 overlapping plates. |
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