Family SIPHONARIIDAE Gray, 1827
Compiler and date details
Brian J. Smith, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston Shannon Reid and Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney
Introduction
Siphonariids are marine limpets that live in shallow tidal areas in sub-Antarctic, temperate and tropical regions of the world, with the exception of the North Atlantic. They have a thin, ovate and asymmetrical patelliform shell with a subcentral, eroded apex. The siphonal groove is distinct and interrupts the horseshoe-shaped pedal muscle scar on the right side. The jaw consists of numerous tiny rods and is slightly arched. They have a secondary gill in the pulmonary cavity enabling them to respire in water.
Tenison-Woods (1877), McAlpine (1952) and Hubendick (1954) revised Australian siphonariids. Iredale (1940) created eight genera for the eastern Australian species. Jenkins (1981, 1983, 1984) provided data on several species from southern Australia. No comprehensive review of all Australian species has been undertaken. Hubendick (1945) presented a detailed phylogeny and biogeography of the family together with details of anatomy and recognised only two genera. Stanisic (1998) has recognised several of Iredale's names as subgenera, although without justification. This scheme is followed here but further work on the systematics of this group is needed before the higher groupings can be stabilised.
General References
Hubendick, B. 1945. Phylogenie und Tiergeographie der Siphonariidae zur kenntnis der phylogenie in der ordnung Basommatophora und des Ursprungs der Pulmonatengruppe. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 24: 1-126
Hubendick, B. 1954. On a small quantity of Siphonaria material from Queensland. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 126-136
Iredale, T. 1940. Marine molluscs from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Australia, and New Caledonia. The Australian Zoologist 9(4): 429-443, pl. 32-34 [Date published 9 December 1940]
Jenkins, B.W. 1981. Siphonaria funiculata Reeve (Siphonariidae, Pulmonata): a redescription making S. virgulata Hedley a geographical variant of S. funiculata. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 1-15
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). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6: 1-35
Jenkins, B.W. 1984. A new siphonariid (Mollusca: Pulmonata) from south-western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6: 113-123
McAlpine, D. 1952. Notes on some Siphonariidae. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 52: 40-42
Stanisic, J. 1998. Family Siphonariidae. pp. 1068-1069 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.
Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On Tasmanian Siphonaria, including a new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 99-100
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |