About Siphonaria pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Siphonaria pectinata, commonly called the striped false limpet, is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet. It is a marine heterobranch gastropod mollusc that belongs to the family Siphonariidae. This species occurs high in the intertidal zone on rocky shores in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Populations previously assigned to this species from the Eastern Atlantic region that inhabit the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and the Florida Keys are now recognized to belong to the separate sibling species Siphonaria naufragum.
