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  • The common limpet is a specially interesting and abundant example of the more primitive Aspidobranchia.
  • Ab, g, The limpet breeds upon the southern English coast in the early part of April, but its development has not been followed.
  • The foot of the limpet is a nearly circular disk of muscular tissue; in front, projecting from and raised above it, are the head and neck (figs.
  • The eyes of the limpet deserve mention as examples of the most primitive kind of eye in the Molluscan series.
  • At low tide the limpet (being a strictly intertidal organism) is exposed to the air, and (according to trustworthy observers) quits its attachment and walks away in search of food (minute encrusting algae), and then once more returns to the identical spot, not an inch in diameter, which belongs, as it were, to it.
 
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