One Green Limpet shell, measuring under an 1 inch, a few may be an inch *****

One Green Limpet shell, measuring under an 1 inch, a few may be an inch.

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Green Limpets are gastropods (mollusks that create a single shell to live in), they attach themselves to rocks in the intertidal waters. These are excellent craft shells. In all, there are more than 400 species. Most are found in temperate waters distributed worldwide.

The following is from studies by James Richard Ainsworth Davis; Herbert John Fleure (1903). Patella, the Common Limpet. Williams & Norgate.

Limpets can grow up to 3 inches but most are 2 inches or less. They can be found worldwide.

Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called limpets descended independently from different ancestral gastropods. This general category of conical shell is known as patelliform (dish-shaped). All members of the large and ancient marine clade Patellogastropoda are limpets. Within that clade, the members of the Patellidae family in particular are often referred to as "true limpets.