Checkered Limpet

Lottia strigatella

• Group: Other

A small limpet patterned in a checkered wash, it grazes microscopic algae and diatoms while submerged. When the tide drops it clamps down and lays a sheet of mucus between foot and rock, sealing itself against drying out and against being torn loose.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 510032.