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.[1]
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Siphonaria zelandica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Siphonariida |
| Family: | Siphonariidae |
| Genus: | Siphonaria |
| Species: | S. zelandica
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| Siphonaria zelandica | |
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 19.9 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off New Zealand and Lord Howe Island.
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Siphonaria zelandica Quoy & Gaimard, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=740950 on 2022-06-09
- Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, P. (1833). Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Tome IV, 366pp. Paris.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Jenkins, B. W. 1983. Redescriptions and relationship of Siphonaria zelandica Quoy and Gaimard to S. australis Quoy and Gaimard with a description of S. propria sp. nov. (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Siphonariidae).
External links edit
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- Reeve, L. A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Siphonaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 9, pl. 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
- Iredale, T. (1940). Marine Molluscs from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Australia, and New Caledonia. Australian Zoologist. 9: 429-443.
- Dayrat, B.; Goulding, T. C.; White, T. R. (2014). Diversity of Indo-West Pacific Siphonaria (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura). Zootaxa. 3779(2): 246-276