Owl limpet
A species of Lottia limpets Scientific name : Lottia gigantea Genus : Lottia limpets
Owl limpet, A species of Lottia limpets
Botanical name: Lottia gigantea
Genus: Lottia limpets
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Description
The owl limpet grows to a length of up to nine centimetres. The often much eroded shell has an elongated low cone shape with the apex close to one end. The anterior slope is concave. The general colour is brownish grey with pale markings and the foot is pale grey with a yellow or orange sole. There is also a small form that lives on the shells of mussels. It is even more elongated, up to twenty-five millimetres long, and dark blue with concentric growth rings. Lottia gigantea present a muscular orange foot. Round the edge of the foot the owl limpet has a distinctive pallial gill system which uses currents caused by the beating of cilia to circulate water over the gills when submerged.
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Scientific Classification
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Molluscs Class
Snails and slugs Family
Tortoiseshell limpets Genus
Lottia limpets Species
Owl limpet 
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