Yellow Foot ‘opihi

Cellana sandwicensis

• Group: Other

This Hawaiian limpet, the opihi, clamps to wave battered rock right at the zero tide mark where the splash never stops. Often masked by a fuzz of seaweed, it grazes coralline algae and is gathered along the shore as a prized local food.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nacellida › Nacellidae › Cellana

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 571924.