''Haminoea antillarum'', the Antilles paper bubble or Antilles glassy bubble, is a
species
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of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
in the
family
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Haminoeidae
Haminoeidae, commonly known as the haminoeid bubble snail family, is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Haminoeoidea.
The name of this family has long been controversial, and used to be A ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Haminoea antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420524 on 2020-09-20]
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
off
East Florida, in the United States to Colombia. It has been found off Cuba and the Virgin Islands and in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Brazil.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.
References
* Thompson, T. E. (1977). ''Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 43: 93-140
External links
Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, TexasGastropods.com: ''Haminoea antillarum antillarum''
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antillarum
Gastropods described in 1841