Cellana exarata
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| Cellana exarata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Nacelloidea |
| Family: | Nacellidae |
| Genus: | Cellana |
| Species: | C. exarata |
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Cellana exarata, common name the black-foot opihi and Hawaiian blackfoot[1] is a species of edible true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.
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Distribution[edit]
This species is endemic to the islands of Hawaii.
Habitat[edit]
This limpet lives in the splash zone, higher up in the intertidal zone than Cellana sandwicensis.
Description[edit]
Both the shell and the foot of the animal are black in color.
Human use[edit]
This species is used as a food item; it is considered not as high in quality as the yellow-foot opihi, C. sandwicensis.
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