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title: "Rough Limpet"
description: "Lottia scabra — Weitere Tiere. Lottia scabra or the rough limpet is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/rough-limpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rough Limpet

> Lottia scabra — Weitere Tiere. Lottia scabra or the rough limpet is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae.

- Scientific name: *Lottia scabra*
- Category: `other` (Weitere Tiere)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 4505
- Wikidata: [Q3201283](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3201283)
- iNaturalist taxon: [48750](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48750)

## Names

- en: Rough Limpet
- es: Lapa áspera

## Countries with the most observations

US (2819), MX (8)

## Summary

Lottia scabra or the rough limpet is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottia_scabra

## Photo

![Rough Limpet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rough-limpet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Al Kordesch · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107462224

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rough-limpet?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).