- Animals
- ›Molluscs
- ›Gastropods
- ›True Limpets
- ›Nacellid Limpets, Tortoiseshell Limpets, and Allies
- ›Tortoiseshell Limpets and Allies
- ›Tortoiseshell Limpets
- ›Lottiinae
- ›Lottiini
- ›Lottia
Rocking Chair Limpet
Lottia instabilis
Lottia instabilis is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae. Common names include the unstable limpet, the unstable seaweed limpet and the rocking chair limpet. It is native to the northern Pacific Ocean where it feeds on kelp in the intertidal zone and the shallow sub-littoral zone.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lottia instabilis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129870.