''Hinea'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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,
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
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s in the
family
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Planaxidae.
[Rosenberg, G. (2012). Hinea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598427 on 2012-07-12]
Species
Species in the genus ''Hinea'' include:
* ''
Hinea akuana''
(Rehder, 1980)
* ''Hinea atra''
(Pease, 1869)
* ''
Hinea brasiliana''
(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)
* ''
Hinea fasciata''
(Pease, 1868)
* ''
Hinea inepta''
(Gould, 1861)
* ''
Hinea lineata''
( E. M. da Costa, 1778) - dwarf planaxis
* ''
Hinea longispira''
(E. A. Smith, 1872)
* ''
Hinea nucleola''
(Mörch, 1876)
* ''
Hinea punctostriata''
(E. A. Smith, 1872)
* ''
Hinea zonata''
(A. Adams, 1853)
References
External links
*
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219.Dall, W. H. (1926). New shells from Japan and the Loochoo Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 39: 63-66*
Planaxidae
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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