Limpet
Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species
Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species. Some of the animals and pants featured include whelks, mussels, bladderwrack, star fish, top shells, periwinkles, crabs, branacles, and anenomes. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre AntonelliBlue mussels Mytilus edulis
Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling. Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).Saltmarsh landscape
Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea