Hello,

Can anyone help me identify this species:

I found a 5mm freshwater limpet on the underside of a water lily leaf.
Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. It looks like a tiny Lottia
instabilis (a marine limpet), overall chocolate brown, apex pointy and
central (actually slightly off to one side). Margin flat and flared out
slightly like a bell. Interior light colored, slightly pearly with a
brown apical blotch. Overall shape is elongate oval.
It's probably in the Canadian freshwater mollusca book, but I don't have
that book, or any other freshwater reference for my area.
Nora! You have the book...can you look it up for me?

Thanks,
Peter


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