Onchidella borealis

Leather Limpet:

Leather Limpet (Onchidella borealis): The leather limpet is in fact more like a slug that ventures into the high intertidal. Like the other pulmonate Pacific falselimpet (Siphonaria thersites), which is found much lower in the intertidal, the leather limpet has a lung and no gills. Almost no one ever finds one, but it is well worth looking for it as it is one of the most unique creatures on the beach, and can even be found when the tide is too high for a good day of tidepooling.

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References

Weblinks

• WoRMS page for Onchidella borealis

• WoRMS Page for Onchidella borealis
• Search Arctos Database for Onchidella borealis (Southeast only)
• Search Arctos Database for Onchidella borealis (entire database)
• Encyclopedia of Life search for Onchidella borealis
• iNaturalist Observations for Onchidella borealis in Southeast Alaska

Other References

• O'Clair O'Clair 1998
• Carlton 2007
• Lamb Hanby 2005

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