Patella rustica

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Rustic limpet

| image = Patelles sur leur rocher.JPG

| image_caption = Patella rustica on rocks

| image2 = Patelle - vue des différents organes externes.JPG

| image2_caption = ventral view of Patella rustica

| taxon = Patella rustica

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

• Patella gorgonica da Costa, 1771
• Patella lusitanica Gmelin 1791
• Patella lusitanica var. minor Marion, 1883
• Patella nigropunctata Reeve, 1854
• Patella polita Risso, 1826
• Patella punctata Lamarck, 1819
• Patella punctulata Gmelin, 1791 (dubious synonym)
• Patella rustica var. maroccana Pallary, 1920
• Patella rustica var. orientalis Pallary, 1938
• Patella squamata Röding, 1798
• Patella subgranularis de Blainville, 1825
• Patella variabilis Risso, 1826

}}

Patella rustica, the Lusitanian limpet{{cite web |title=Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758 |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4DZXQ |publisher=Catalogue of Life |access-date=13 June 2021}} or rustic limpet{{Cite web|url=http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_6.html|title = Edible Molluscs Page 6}} is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.{{WRMS species|140683|Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758||8 April 2010}} It is a rocky shore intertidal mollusc found throughout the Mediterranean and the north-east Atlantic from Mauritania to southern France.{{cite journal |title=Recent changes in the distribution of a marine gastropod, Patella rustica, across the Iberian Atlantic coast did not result in diminished genetic diversity or increased connectivity |journal=Sigarra.up.pt |bibcode=2010JBiog..37.1782R |url=https://sigarra.up.pt/sasup/pt/pub_geral.pub_view?pi_pub_base_id=98428 |access-date=13 June 2021 |language=pt |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Pedro A. |last2=Branco |first2=Madalena |last3=Hawkins |first3=Stephen J. |last4=Santos |first4=António M. |date=2010 |volume=37 |issue=9 |page=1782 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02330.x |s2cid=84021233 |url-access=subscription }}