歐洲帽貝

{{speciesbox
| image = Common limpets1.jpg
| image_caption = 威爾士的歐洲帽貝
| image2 = Patella vulgata 01.JPG
| image2_caption =
| taxon=Patella vulgata
| authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| synonyms_ref= ，發現於歐洲西部沿海，甲殼長約6釐米，壽命可達20年。它的牙齒是世界上最堅硬的生物材料。

齿舌
歐洲帽貝的齿舌上有160排（每排12個）、1920個牙齒。它的牙齒是世界上最堅硬的生物材料，2015年的一份研究顯示，其牙齒強度甚至高過蜘蛛絲，可承受4.9 GPa的壓力。

參考文獻

• [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.]
• Lespinet, Nederbragt, Cassan, Dictus, Van Loon, et al. Characterisation of two snail genes in the gastropod mollusc Patella vulgata. Implications for understanding the ancestral function of the snail-related genes in Bilateria. 2002.

外部連接

• [http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesinformation.php?speciesID=4050 MarLIN species information]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091008032442/http://www.arkive.org/common-limpet/patella-vulgata/ Live underwater image]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071013131022/http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/factfiles/molluscs/limpet_bg.shtml BBC Info retrieved 2012]
• [http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Limpets.jpg.html FSC Info- great pix Retrieved 2012]