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Patella rustica

Species of gastropod

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, the Lusitanian limpet^[2] or rustic limpet^[3] 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] It is a rocky shore intertidal mollusc found throughout the Mediterranean and the north-east Atlantic from Mauritania to southern France.^[4]

Description

Distribution

References

^ ^a ^b Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
^ "Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
^ "Edible Molluscs Page 6".
^ Ribeiro, Pedro A.; Branco, Madalena; Hawkins, Stephen J.; Santos, António M. (2010). "Recent changes in the distribution of a marine gastropod, Patella rustica, across the Iberian Atlantic coast did not result in diminished genetic diversity or increased connectivity". Sigarra.up.pt (in Portuguese). 37 (9): 1782. Bibcode:2010JBiog..37.1782R. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02330.x. S2CID 84021233. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp

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Edible mollusks

Bivalves

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 Giant Atlantic
Mussels	Blue Mediterranean New Zealand green-lipped California Brown Asian/Philippine green Date Mytilidae (mussel family)
Oysters	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 Bailer
Land	Cornu aspersum Helix lucorum Helix pomatia
Freshwater	Apple Nerites

Inkfish

Cuttlefish	Spineless Bottletail
Octopus	Common Atlantic white-spotted Big blue Pacific giant Southern red Mimic Amphioctopus fangsiao
Squid	New Zealand arrow Japanese flying Humboldt Neon flying