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Limpets are indeed molluscs. Crustaceans are like underwater insects, with every single part of their bodies typically covered in thin-ish keratin-based plating. That said, they include some oddballs like barnacles, which build shells more like bivalve molluscs do (clams and such).
You're right about the different feeding methods of limpets and filter-feeders. Limpets are like gastropod molluscs (snails, etc) in that they eat directly from a surface or prey.
Oh, I'd generally thought that most animal material (and of course waste) makes for good fertiliser, but maybe it depends. In truth, I was thinking back about a garden project in which we used a kind of 'fish guts' solution to help grow produce. The plants loved it!
I think the main problem is that it's far more likely to attract things like rats if you are throwing out stuff like that. But it probably also depends on how you compost it.
Right, it would need to be blended up with some water such that it quickly sunk in to the soil, like the fish guts liquid fertiliser.
Ok that might work. Getting a blender for that seems a bit excessive though. Maybe diced finely and then spread out among a bunch of other things though.
That assumes that limpets can even make a stock worth bothering with of course. I think it might be but can't find too much info on them, or many recipes.
Just remembered Atomic Shrimp tried it, back in the website days - https://atomicshrimp.com/post/2010/08/25/Limpets-Another-Try
So generally limpets are going to be tough regardless of what you do to them. Not inedible though. But could work for a nice seafood stock. Perhaps if you got a variety of things you could also collect limpets for stock.