Siphonaria
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Siphonaria is a genus of air-breathing sea snails or false limpets, marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.
[edit] Distribution
This genus occurs worldwide in most tropical and temperate seas.
[edit] Species 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
[edit] References
- Siphonaria (TSN 76443). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
