Limpets

Description:

Numerous limpets growing on the bright gray shale of the inlet amongst algae, barnacles and bivalves. There is also a blueish mollusk on the left side of the picture.

Habitat:

Coastline inlet of Totem Bight State Park, Ketchikan, Alaska.

Notes:

This may be the Mask Limpet, Notoacmea persona. Limpets are fascinating little mollusks. See this neat story about their life: https://soundwaterstewards.org/icbw/essa....