Sabia (gastropod)

Sabia is a genus of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof shells or hoof snails.[1]

Sabia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Vanikoroidea
Family:
Hipponicidae
Genus:
Sabia

Gray, 1841
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Sabia include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also adds the following species with names in current use :[2]

  • 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 :[3]

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

References
  1. 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
  2. OBIS : Sabia; accessed : 31 January 2011
  3. Gastropods.com : Hipponicidae


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