Siphonaria stewartiana

Siphonaria stewartiana is a species of air-breathing sea snail, a false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.[1]

Siphonaria stewartiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Siphonarioidea
Family:
Siphonariidae
Genus:
Siphonaria
Species:
S. stewartiana
Binomial name
Siphonaria stewartiana
(Powell, 1939)
Synonyms
  • Kerguelenella stewartiana (Powell, 1939)
  • Siphonaria (Kerguelenella) stewartiana (Powell, 1939)

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and the Kerguelens

References
  1. Marshall, B. (2015). Siphonaria stewartiana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850630 on 2016-04-01
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch


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