Tectura depicta; Painted Limpet; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Zostera+marina&title_tag=Zostera+marina>Zostera marina</a>)</small>

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Tectura depicta; Painted Limpet; (shown with Zostera marina)

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Tectura depicta
Painted Limpet
(shown with Zostera marina)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0936 (2005-03-29)

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date of photo between 1990 and 1995

latitude 36.81856 longitude -121.79270 max error distance 26012 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

class Gastropoda

habitat On Eel Grass, Zostera marina

notes Note the graze marks left by this little herbivorous limpet that lives only on eel grass, Zostera marina. In recent years this invasive species has wiped out most of the Zostera beds in Monterey Bay by grazing the leafs' epidermis with its chloroplasts and chlorophyll .

camera Olympus System for Macrophotography

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Painted Limpet (ITIS ) Painted Limpet (photographer)

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