Dear Friends,
an interesting work about Siphonaria species is:
 
Morrison J.P.E.  1972. Mediterranean Siphonaria: West and East - old and new. published on Argamon, Israel Journal of Malacology.
 
According this author (of U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington), Siphonaria (Mouretus) pectinata (Linneo,1758), the only Eastern Atlantic species, is native to the Western Mediterranean.
It is dissused from Portugal to Atlantic and Mediterranean Spain (Huelva, Cadiz, Gibraltar, MAlaga, Almeria); as Morrison stated (1963), the western Atlantic populations were introduced on the ships of European to America.
Synonyms od S. pectinata are:
- Patella grisea Gmelin, 1791
- Patella melanoleuca Gmelin, 1791
- Siphonaria mouretus Blainville, 1824
- Mouretus adansoni Blainville, 1824
- Siphonaria alsirae Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Siphonaria radiata Sowerby, 1835 (not Blainville, 1827)
- Siphonaria lineolata D'Orbigny, 1842 (not Sowerby, 1835)
- Siphonaria striatocostata Dunker, 1846
- Siphonaria jonasi Dunker, 1846
- Siphonaria umbonata Menke, 1853
- Siphonaria venosa Reeve, 1856
- Siphonaria palpebrum Reeve, 1856
- Siphonaria parma Hanley, 1858
- Siphonaria sowerbyi H. & A. Adams, 1858 (new name for S. radiata Sowerby)
- Siphonaria lineata Krebs, 1864 (error pro S. lineolata D'Orbigny)
- Siphonaria striatopunctata Weinkauff, 1868 (error pro striatocostata Dunker)
- Siphonaria naufragum Stearns, 1872
- Siphonaria mouret Pallary, 1900
- Siphonaria striatocompressa Pallary, 1900 (error pro stristocostata Dunker)
 
A VERY BIG PROBLEM!
 
The second Mediterranean Siphonaria, introduced fron Indo-Pacific Ocean, is
Siphonaria (Mestosiphon) laciniosa (Linneo, 1758) with about other 40 synonyms.
It is known fron the coast of Israel.
 
Italo
 
 
 
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