Patellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda.

For more information, please see Limpet.

Genera

• Helcion Dentfort, 1810
• Helcion pellucidum (Linnaeus)
• Helioniscus
• Patella Linnaeus, 1758
• Patella caerulea Linnaeus
• Patella intermedia Pennant
• Patella nigra (da Costa, 1771)
• Patella rustica Linnaeus
• Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin
• Patella vulgata Linnaeus
• Patina Gray, 1840
• Rhodopetala

Practical application

A study of Patella caerulea found that this limpet reduced the cover of algae and barnacles on steel panels suspended in sea water in a commercial port, suggesting that the limpet could be used to inhibit fouling of ship hulls

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1