Siphonaria compressa
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Siphonaria compressa is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail
. It is a pulmonate limpet
, a gastropod in the Siphonariidae
family.
A further site for this false limpet was discovered in 2004 in the Knysna
River estuary (S34 03:E23 03) South Africa by Dr B. R. Allanson (the original describer of the species).
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
. It is a pulmonate 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...
, a gastropod in the 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...
family.
Distribution
It is endemic to South Africa.A further site for this false limpet was discovered in 2004 in the Knysna
Knysna
Knysna is a town with 76,431 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is part of the Garden Route. It lies 34 degrees south of the equator, and is 72 kilometres east from the town of George on the N2 highway, and 25 kilometres west of Plettenberg Bay on the same road.-History:A...
River estuary (S34 03:E23 03) South Africa by Dr B. R. Allanson (the original describer of the species).