---
title: "Plate Limpet"
description: "Lottia scutum — Autres animaux. Lottia scutum is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/plate-limpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Plate Limpet

> Lottia scutum — Autres animaux. Lottia scutum is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

- Scientific name: *Lottia scutum*
- Category: `other` (Autres animaux)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mer et côte)
- iNaturalist observations: 4400
- Wikidata: [Q6685006](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6685006)
- iNaturalist taxon: [129962](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129962)

## Names

- en: Plate Limpet

## Countries with the most observations

US (659), CA (357)

## Summary

Lottia scutum is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Rathke, 1833 · CC0 · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_ZMA.MOLL.95680_-_Lottia_scutum_(Rathke,_1833)_-_Lottiidae_-_Mollusc_shell.jpeg

## Machine access

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