Hi all,

In adding species to my Web site I've come across
something a little puzzling. I Boundary Bay, just
south of Vancouver BC, I collected a number of
limpets that I've labeled Lottia alveus. This limpet
was very abundant living on eelgrass stems.

What puzzles me is that a number of Web sites
call it an extinct species. One is
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/davidl/Pages/biblio.html
which lists a paper written in 1991:

Carlton, J. T., G. J. Vermeij, D. R. Lindberg, Debby A. Carlton and E. C.
Dudley. The first historical extinction of a marine invertebrate in an
ocean basin: The demise of the eelgrass limpet Lottia alveus. Biol. Bull.
180:72-80. 1991

Also:
http://www.earthwitness.com/Animals-2.htm
http://www.cacor.ca/mcall.html

Does anyone have information on this species?
Have a look at my Web site for photos of the
limpet, including a live shot on eelgrass.

Thanks for any info,

Peter Egerton





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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca, lifetime student
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