Groups of individuals are often found heaped up and fastened together, with the larger, older females below and the smaller, younger males on top.

[3] The species is native to the western Atlantic Ocean, specifically the Eastern coast of North America.

[1] In Belgium, the first slipper limpet was found on September 28, 1911, attached to an oyster in Ostend, and since the 1930s it is seen as a common species along the Belgian coast.

[5] The slipper limpet has few to no predators in Europe, and can thrive on several types of hard bottoms and shellfish banks.

The liquid itself could also be used as a clam juice substitute...Recipes including limpets have been published in Scottish cookbooks; in Hawaii they are considered a delicacy and the Azores highly value them in their cultural dishes.

They are often found living stacked on top of one another on rocks, on horseshoe crabs, shells and on dock pilings.

First recorded in 1872[citation needed], these non-native limpets arrived in England and Wales from America in a shipment of oysters.

Common slipper limpets are currently being considered as a food source in efforts to reduce their spread from Southern England.

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