Siphonaria

Taxobox
name = "Siphonaria"


image_width = 200px
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Siphonariidae
genus = "Siphonaria"
genus_authority = Sowerby I, 1823
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Siphonaria" is a genus of air-breathing sea snails or false limpets, marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.

Distribution

This genus occurs worldwide in most tropical and temperate seas.

pecies within the genus Siphonaria

* "Siphonaria alternata" Say, 1826
* "Siphonaria australis" Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
* "Siphonaria brannani" Stearns, 1872
* "Siphonaria cookiana" Suter, 1909
* "Siphonaria denticulata" Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
* "Siphonaria pectinata" (Linnaeus, 1758) - striped false limpet
* "Siphonaria thersites" Carpenter, 1864
* "Siphonaria virgulata"
* "Siphonaria zelandica" Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1