Limpet - Other Limpets

Other Limpets

Marine

  • The keyhole limpets and slit limpets - Fissurellidae
  • The hydrothermal vent limpets – Neomphaloidea and Lepetodriloidea
  • The nerite limpets – Phenacolepadidae
  • The hoof snails - Hipponix and other Hipponicidae
  • Slipper snails - Crepidula species, which are sometimes known as slipper limpets
  • Opisthobranch limpets such as Tylodina and also Umbraculum
    • Air-breathing limpets such as Siphonariidae
    • A separate family of marine air-breathing limpets, the Trimusculidae

Freshwater

  • The pulmonate river and lake limpets - Ancylidae

Most of the marine limpets have gills, whereas all the freshwater limpets and a few of the marine limpets have a mantle cavity that is adapted to breathe air and function as a lung (and in some cases has been again adapted to absorb oxygen from water) all these various kinds of snail are only very distantly related.

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