Patella rustica

Rustic limpet

Patella rustica on rocks

ventral view of Patella rustica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Patelloidea
Family:	Patellidae
Genus:	Patella
Species:	P. rustica
Binomial name
*Patella rustica* Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms^[1]
Patella gorgonica da Costa, 1771 Patella lusitanica Gmelin 1791 Patella lusitanica var. minor Marion, 1883 Patella nigropunctata Reeve, 1854 Patella polita Risso, 1826 Patella punctata Lamarck, 1819 Patella punctulata Gmelin, 1791 (dubious synonym) Patella rustica var. maroccana Pallary, 1920 Patella rustica var. orientalis Pallary, 1938 Patella squamata Röding, 1798 Patella subgranularis de Blainville, 1825 Patella variabilis Risso, 1826

Patella rustica, common name rustic limpet^[2] is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.^[1]

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Edible mollusks

Clams	Atlantic jackknife Atlantic surf Geoduck Grooved carpet shell Hard clam Horse Mactra stultorum Blunt gaper Ocean quahog Pacific razor Venus California butterclam Senilia senilis Smooth clam Soft-shell Triangle shell Tuatua Japanese littleneck Razor clam Pod razor Ensis (razor genus) Paphies

Cockles	Common Blood Goolwa New Zealand Sydney

Mussels	Blue Mediterranean New Zealand green-lipped California Brown Asian/Philippine green Date Mytilidae (mussel family)

Oysters	Auckland Eastern Olympia Southern mud Colchester native Pacific Portuguese Windowpane Rock Sydney rock Ostra chilena/Bluff Gillardeau oysters Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)

Scallops	Atlantic bay Great/king New Zealand Pecten jacobaeus Peruvian calico Yesso Placopecten magellanicus

Sea	Mud-flat Korean mud Chorus giganteus

Land	Cornu aspersum Helix lucorum Helix pomatia

Freshwater	Nerites

Cuttlefish	Spineless Bottletail

Octopus	Common Atlantic white-spotted Big blue Pacific giant Southern red Amphioctopus fangsiao

Squid	New Zealand arrow Japanese flying Humboldt Neon flying

Related topics: Oyster farming; Land snail farming; Gastropod anatomy; Bivalve anatomy

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