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The limpet is a relative of a snail. It has a one-piece shell that is like a pointy hat. A limpet has one big foot and a strong suction cup. Limpets eat only at night because then they are much safer moving around. Limpets eat algae off rocks using their radula. Limpets always go back to the same place after eating. Sometimes they use the same spot for their whole life. Limpets fit back into their place in the rock perfectly. Limpets can find their way back to their rock home. They leave a trail of mucus, (just like snails) behind them, which chemically "stores" their direction of travel. They use sensitive chemoreceptors to find their way back "reading" the trail. Limpets don't even have any eyes.
Young limpets live at lower levels of the tidepools. Older limpets live at higher levels of the tidepool.
Limpets have separate sexes. They shoot their eggs or sperms into the open water.

 
 Diet algae
 Size two centimeters to ten centimeters
 Color light brown, grey-brown, or dark brown, white , sometimes green,
 Life Cycle eggs,
 Predators sea stars
 Neat Facts Limpets stay in one place their whole life. Limpets eat only at night.
 Types rough limpet, shield limpet, ribbed limpet, owl limpet, plate limpet, kelp limpet, dunce cap limpet, and keyhole limpet
 Relatives abalone, nudibranchs, sea hairs, octopi, squid, scallop, mussels, oysters, clams, chitons, and snails

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