Lottia digitalis lobed and irregular. The shell characteristics are very variable. The color is usually brown or dark olive with white patches. The range of "L. digitalis" extends from northern Alaska to northern Mexico. It is a common species and is found among acorn barnacles on vertical rock faces in high to mid-intertidal zones, on both exposed and sheltered coasts. In California, young limpets, up to ten millimetres in diameter, often live on the opercular plates of gooseneck barnacles, "Pollicipes polymerus" and on mussel shells. In both cases, the colouring varies from that of the rock-based form and provides camouflage. At Mission
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