Land Snail

Siphonaria carbo

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A false limpet rather than a true one, this air breathing snail clings to intertidal rock under a simple cone of shell. It grazes the thin film of lichen and algae crusting the rocks where the tide rises and falls.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Siphonariida › Siphonariidae › Siphonaria

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 215300.