Limpet
a popular name for any of the prosobranchiate gasteropods of the LIMPET, a popular name for any of family Patellidæ and (more properly) of the genus Patella. The shell is usually oval and tent-shaped; interior smooth, but not nacreous. Limpets are world- oval and tent-shaped; interior smooth, the genus Patella. The shell is usually LINCOLN wide in their distribution. They are vegetable feeders, and inhabit rocks between tidemarks, returning to the same place after feeding. They are much used by fishermen for bait, and in times of scarcity for food. Vast quantities fall a prey to the sea and shore birds. The oyster catcher (Hæmatopus ostralegus) ing the animals from their shells. these mollusks from the rocks, and scooping the animals from their shells.