Sabia (gastropod)

Sabia is a genus of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof shells or hoof snails.[1]

Sabia
Shells of Sabia conica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Vanikoroidea
Family: Hipponicidae
Genus: Sabia
Gray, 1841
Type species
Calyptraea lithedaphus Reeve, 1842
Synonyms

Amalthea Schumacher, 1817

Species

Species within the genus Sabia include:

Synonyms
  • Sabia prionocidaricola Habe & Kanazawa, 1991 (synonym of Hipponix prionocidaricola Habe & Kanazawa, 1991): synonym of Hipponix prionocidaricola (Habe & Kanazawa, 1991) (original combination)
  • Sabia wyattae Powell, 1958: synonym of Sabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)

According to Gastropods.com, the following species also belong to the genus Sabia :[2]

  • Sabia affine (Jeffreys, 1883)
  • Sabia erma (Cotton, B.C., 1939) (taxon inquirendum)

References

  1. WoRMS (2011). Sabia Gray, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180991 on 2011-01-31
  2. Gastropods.com : Hipponicidae


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