File Limpet

Lottia limatula

• Group: Other

A flat oval limpet of the high intertidal, the file limpet clamps tight to rock when the tide drops and creeps out to graze encrusting algae only when water returns. It can sense an approaching sea star and pulls away, though crabs and the ochre star still take their toll.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nacellida › Lottiidae › Lottia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 456596.