Siphonaria
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Siphonaria is a genus
Genera
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 of air-breathing sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s or false limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
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 Siphonariidae
Siphonariidae
Siphonariidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing sea snails, marine and brackish water pulmonate gastropod molluscs. These snails are sometimes known as "false limpets" because of the shape of the shell, but they are not at all closely related to true limpets...

, the false limpets.

Distribution

This genus occurs worldwide in most tropical and temperate
Temperate
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 seas.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species
World Register of Marine Species
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 (WoRMS), the following species are included in the genus Siphonaria
  • Siphonaria alternata Say
    Thomas Say
    Thomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...

    , 1826
  • Siphonaria anneae
  • Siphonaria atra Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
  • Siphonaria baconi Reeve, 1856
  • Siphonaria capensis Quoy & Gaimard
  • Siphonaria carbo Hanley
  • Siphonaria compressa
    Siphonaria compressa
    Siphonaria compressa is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail. It is a pulmonate limpet, a gastropod in the Siphonariidae family.- Distribution :It is endemic to South Africa....

    Allanson, 1958
  • Siphonaria concinna Sowerby, 1830
  • Siphonaria crenata de Blainville, 1827
  • Siphonaria dayi Allanson
  • Siphonaria ferruginea Reeve, 1856
  • Siphonaria grisea Gmelin
  • Siphonaria incerta Deshayes, 1863
  • Siphonaria kurracheensis (Reeve, 1856)
  • Siphonaria laciniosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Siphonaria madagascarensis Ohdner, 1919
  • Siphonaria natalensis Krauss, 1848
  • Siphonaria nigerrima
  • Siphonaria normalis Gould
  • Siphonaria oculus Krauss
  • Siphonaria pectinata
    Siphonaria pectinata
    Siphonaria pectinata, common name the striped false limpet, is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets....

    (Linnaeus, 1758) - striped false limpet
  • Siphonaria serrata
  • Siphonaria sipho Sowerby, 1830
  • Siphonaria siquijorensis Reeve, 1856
  • Siphonaria tenuicostulata Smith


Other species within the genus Siphonaria include:
  • Siphonaria australis
    Siphonaria australis
    Siphonaria australis is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.-References:...

    Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...

     & Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...

    , 1833
  • Siphonaria brannani Stearns, 1872
  • Siphonaria cookiana
    Siphonaria cookiana
    Siphonaria cookiana is a species of small air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.-References:...

    Suter
    Henry Suter
    Henry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...

    , 1909
  • Siphonaria denticulata Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...

     & Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...

    , 1833
  • Siphonaria gigas Sowerby, 1825 - giant false limpet
  • Siphonaria thersites Carpenter
    Phillip Pearsall Carpenter
    Philip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...

    , 1864
  • Siphonaria virgulata
  • Siphonaria zelandica
    Siphonaria zelandica
    Siphonaria zelandica is a species of medium-sized air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.-References:...

    Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy
    Jean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...

     & Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard
    Joseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...

    , 1833


According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species are also included within the genus Siphonaria
  • Siphonaria acmaeoides Pilsbry, 1894
  • Siphonaria japonica (Donovan, 1824)
  • Siphonaria javanica (Lamarck, 1819)
  • Siphonaria rucuana Pilsbry, 1904
  • Siphonaria sirius Pilsbry, 1894
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