Siphonaria gigas, common name the giant 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.[1]
Siphonaria gigas | |
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Five views of a shell of Siphonaria gigas G.B. Sowerby I, 1825 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Siphonariida |
Family: | Siphonariidae |
Genus: | Siphonaria |
Species: | S. gigas
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Binomial name | |
Siphonaria gigas |
Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 32 mm and 84 mm.
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Acapulco, Mexico, to Northern Peru; off the Galápagos Islands.
References
edit- ^ Siphonaria gigas G.B. Sowerby I, 1825. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 August 2011.
External links
edit- "Siphonaria (Heterosiphonaria) gigas". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.