''Sabia'' is a genus of small
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
limpet
Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. This general category of conical shell is known as "patelliform" (dish-shaped). Existing within the class Gastropoda, ...
-like
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
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 in the ...
, the hoof shells or hoof snails.
[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]
Species
Species within the genus ''Sabia'' include:
* ''
Sabia australis''
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 ...
, 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 :
Gastropods.com : Hipponicidae
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* '' Sabia affine'' (Jeffreys Jeffreys is a surname that may refer to the following notable people:
* Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting
* Anne Jeffreys (1923–2017), American actress and singer
* Arthur Frederick Jeffreys ( ...
, 1883)
* '' Sabia erma'' (Cotton, B.C., 1939) (taxon inquirendum)
References
External links
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
Hipponicidae
Gastropod genera
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