单词 | bonnet limpet |
释义 | > as lemmasbonnet limpet bonnet limpet n. (also with distinguishing word) any of various limpets or other marine gastropod molluscs having a bonnet-shaped shell; esp. a gastropod mollusc of the genera Capulus and Hipponix; cf. sense 11. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > limpet > member of family Calyptraeidae bonnet limpet1770 bonnet1799 Chinaman's hat1851 deck-head1881 1770 W. Huddesford Lister's Hist. Conchyliorum Index Alter 73 Dutch Bonnet Limpet. 1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, Shells, & Plants Dorsetshire 51/1 P[atella] ungarica... Bonnet limpet. Shell, conic, and much elevated, [etc.]. 1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals II. 511 The..Bonnet-limpets, are found on the coasts of all seas from Norway to Chili and Australia. 1901 E. Step Shell Life xii. 220 The Bonnet-limpets (Capulidae) have the muzzle extended, the eyes situated on the base of the tentacles, and has but one gill-plume, which is finely and deeply divided. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) iii. 82 Calyptraea.., the bonnet-limpet, or Chinaman's hat, is depressed-conical, with a spiral shelf in the interior. 2013 S. A. Shepherd & G. J. Edgar Ecol. Austral. Temperate Reefs viii. 179/1 The bonnet limpet often lived on many host shells without access to their faeces, and so depended on sediment and detritus for food. < as lemmas |
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