Main features of the family :
These limpets are mostly intertidal, conical shells with no hole at the apex.
Like the keyhole limpets, their flattened shape adapts them to cling to rocks
exposed to heavy wave action and strong currents. Most have a permanent
home site to which they return after foraging, their shell edges growing to fit
the irregularities of their home site. Previously included in the Acmaeidae,
the lottiid limpets are herbivorous animals which basically occupy the same
ecological niches as the Patellidae in other regions of the world, the latter family
being almost absent from the tropical eastern Pacific and the Galápagos.
5 species of true limpets have been recorded from the Galápagos Islands.
List of genera and species known from the Galápagos
