Sabia (gastropod)
| Sabia | |
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| Shells of Sabia conica | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Synonyms | |
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Amalthea Schumacher, 1817 | |
Sabia is a genus of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof shells or hoof snails.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Sabia include:
- Sabia australis Lamarck, 1819
- Sabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)
- Sabia lithedaphus (Reeve, 1842)
- 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
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Gastropods.com : Hipponicidae
External links
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