''Hipponix'',
common name hoof snails or hoof shells, is a
genus
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of small
sea snails with
limpet-like shells,
marine gastropod molluscs in the
family
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Hipponicidae
''Hipponicidae'', common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea
Vanikoroidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs ...
, the hoof snails.
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Hipponix Defrance, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138072 on 2012-06-25] Many (but not all) of the species in this genus have white shells.
Species
Species within the genus ''Hipponix'' include:
* ''
Hipponix antiquatus
''Hipponix antiquatus'' is a species of small limpet-like sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.
Distribution
Description
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(Linnaeus
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, 1767)
* ''
Hipponix benthophila''
( Dall, 1889)
* ''
Hipponix climax''
Simone, 2005
* ''
Hipponix conicus''
(Schumacher, 1817)
** ''
Hipponix conicus wyattae''
( Powell, 1958)
* ''
Hipponix costellatus''
Carpenter, 1856
* ''
Hipponix cranioides
''Hipponix'', common name hoof snails or hoof shells, is a genus of small sea snails with limpet-like shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Hipponix Defrance, 1819. Accessed ...
''
Carpenter, 1864
* ''
Hipponix delicatus
''Hipponix'', common name hoof snails or hoof shells, is a genus of small sea snails with limpet-like shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Hipponix Defrance, 1819. Accessed ...
''
Dall, 1908
* ''
Hipponix floridanus
''Hipponix'', common name hoof snails or hoof shells, is a genus of small sea snails with limpet-like shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Hipponix Defrance, 1819. Accessed ...
''
Olsson & Harbison, 1953
* ''
Hipponix grayanus''
Menke, 1853
* ''
Hipponix imbricatus''
* ''
Hipponix incurvus
''Hipponix incurvus'' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails. Until recently this species was considered to be a species of '' Capulus'' in the Capulidae but was reclassified by Si ...
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( Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Hipponix leptus''
Simone, 2002
* ''
Hipponix mogul''
Chino, 2006
* ''
Hipponix panamensis''
C.B. Adams, 1852
* ''
Hipponix pilosus''
(Deshayes, 1832)
* ''
Hipponix planatus''
Carpenter, 1857
* ''
Hipponix subrufus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
* ''
Hipponix ticaonicus''
Sowerby, 1846
* ''
Hipponix tumens''
Carpenter, 1864 - ribbed hoofsnail
NOTE: According to notes in Rosenberg, 2009, the online database Malacolog 4.1.1, ''H. antiquatus'' was described without a type locality. This same species was previously considered to occur in both the Eastern Pacific and the Western Atlantic, but some records of this species from the Western Atlantic may in fact be ''H. leptus'' instead.
; Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Hipponix acutus'' Quoy & Gaimard, 1835: synonym of ''Hipponix conicus'' (Schumacher, 1817)
* ''Hipponix australis'' (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of ''
Sabia australis'' (Lamarck, 1819)
* ''Hipponix barbatus'' Sowerby, 1835: synonym of ''Hipponix pilosus'' (Deshayes, 1832)
* ''Hipponix inexpectata'' Mestayer, 1929: synonym of ''
Spirobranchus latiscapus'' (Marenzeller, 1885)
* ''Hipponix lissus'' (E.A. Smith, 1894): synonym of ''
Malluvium lissum'' (E. A. Smith, 1894)
References
* Mestayer M.K. (1929) ''Notes on New Zealand Mollusca''. 4. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 60(1): 247–250, pls 20–25.
ublished 31 May 1929
* Dell, R.K., 1956. ''The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand''. Dominion Mus. Bull. Wellington 18: 1-235
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Further reading
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
External links
* (1862)
drawing of the anatomy
Hipponicidae
Gastropod genera
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