Talk:Limpet
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This is my first work on wikipedia, so I am apt to get a lot of sylistic things wrong... since no one else seems to be working on the limpets, that is probably OK... As I have time, I'll try to make it look more like some of the better ToL entries. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mooseo (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Opihi
Added section on Opihi, which is a major and prototypical food item in Hawaii, much like Poi, Kalua Pig, et cetera. Although Limpet is so far an article with a biological bent, Opihi currently redirects here to Limpet, so I simply made it a new section stub for now. I also added See also and references sections-- currently these are under Opihi, but could be moved to the bottom of the parent article if need be. Also, the section title is Opihi (food) rather than Hawaiian Opihi (food), or rather than adding the okina-- this is so the section can be more easily used as an anchor, for example like this: Opihi.
Is it possible to remove the re-direct for Opihi? Limpets are a group of gastropods found around the world, while Opihi is the cultural maifestation of limpets in on location (Hawaii). I think that the Opihi stuff is really interesting, but it seems to skew the whole limpet section, implying that they are somehow mostly found in Hawaii. The links, especially, are very location specific. I don't really know how to go about changing this.
This sounds like a really good idea to me... the "In Hawaii" section seems to tilt the whole thing. Removing all of that from "limpet" and talking about this cultural food which happens to be a limpet is a great idea —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mooseo (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Classification
Can we differentiate between the different types of limpets more clearly? At the moment this page seems to be a mishmash of a number of different types of limpet. The picture looks to me like the common limpet Patella vulgata, but is shown alongside the taxonomy of tortoiseshell limpets, (family Acmaeidae). The word limpet describes a wide range of animals, mostly of the order Archaeogastropoda, but also animals such as slipper limpets (Family Calyptraeidae). Perhaps this page should focus on Limpets of the Family Patellidae, with seperate pages for keyhole limpets and tortoiseshell limpets. --Bobbyboyuk 17:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
All of those sound like good ideas... as long as the main entry for "limpet" has links to the other ones, that would make it much cleaner —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mooseo (talk • contribs) .
[edit] P. candei
Hi, I have added P. candei (I needed it for the Canarian Black Oystercatcher), but I am not 100% on whether it is considered valid... as P. gomesii (with 2 "i" - corr that) was in the list but candei was not, and as a 2002 study found gomesii to be a well-differentiated subspecies of candei, I have slightly changed the present arrangement. Note that gomesii still (red)links to the page titled Patella gomesii; not having read the 2002 paper, I did not change this but maybe one of you mollusc experts will want to do that. In any case, as gomesii is aparently close to extinction, it might warrant a page on its own. Dysmorodrepanis 18:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
