Limpet

Family Patellidae

• Portuguese: Lapa
• Spanish: Lapa, Lampa
• French: Patelle, Bernique, Chapeau chinois
• Dutch: Tepelhoidje
• German: Napfschnecke
• Swedish: Skålsnäcka
• Norwegian: Albuskjell
• Danish: Albueskæl
• Other: Venis (Brittany); Flie (French); Fliða (Faroese); Flitter (Isle of Man); Crogan (Cornwall)

REMARKS Maximum diameter 7 cm, usual size 5 cm. The colour of the shell is usually grey, yellowish or brown. This is a European species. Limpets on the eastern seaboard of North America are smaller. Even Euell Gibbons seems never to have managed to make a meal of them, despite his enthusiastic and optimistic approach to all natural foods.