Hipponix

Hipponix
Hipponix antiquatus shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hipponicidae
Genus: Hipponix
DeFrance, 1819
Species

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Synonyms

Hipponyx Defrance, 1819 (alternate representation)

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. Many (but not all) of the species in this genus have white shells.

Species

Species within the genus Hipponix include:

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

References

  1. ↑ DeFrance (1819_. Journ. de Physique 88: 217.
  2. ↑ 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

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