''Sabia conica'', commonly known as the bonnet limpet, is a
species of small limpet-like
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 7 mm and 45 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania, in the western Pacific, in the
Red Sea and in the
Mediterranean Sea.
References
* Spry, J.F. (1961). ''The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods''. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
* Rosenberg, G. 1992. ''Encyclopedia of Seashells.'' Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 70
* Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). ''Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas''. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453
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Hipponicidae
Gastropods described in 1817
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