Sabia (gastropod) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sabia is a genus of small sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

Limpet

Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...

-like marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae

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.-Genera:Genera within the family Hipponicidae include:...

, the hoof shells or hoof snails.

Species

Sabia conica
Sabia conica
Sabia conica, common name : the bonnet limpet, is a species of small limpet-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.-Distribution:...

(Schumacher, 1817)

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also adds the following species with names in current use :

Sabia australis Lamarck, 1819 (synonym of Hipponix australis
Hipponix australis
Hipponix australis is a species of small limpet-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails....

(Lamarck, 1819) )
Sabia prionocidaricola Habe & Kanazawa, 1991 (synonym of Hipponix prionocidaricola Habe & Kanazawa, 1991)

According to Gastropods.com, the following species also belong to the genus Sabia :

Sabia affine (Jeffreys, J.G., 1883)
Sabia erma (Cotton, B.C., 1939)

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