Sexes are separate in most limpets. Spawning occurs in late winter/springtime in most species, and development leads to a free-swimming, non-feeding veliger larva.
NOTE sex ratios in limpets are rarely mentioned. In one study on Lottia limatula at Palos Verdes, California a ratio of 1.7 male: 1 female is reported (in 486 specimens). Seapy 1966 Veliger 8: 300. |