Sabia australis

Sabia australis is a species of small limpet-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.[1]

Sabia australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Vanikoroidea
Family:
Hipponicidae
Genus:
Sabia
Species:
S. australis
Binomial name
Sabia australis
(Lamarck, 1819)
Synonyms

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar

References
  1. Sabiaaustralis (Lamarck, 1819). WoRMS (2009). Hipponix australis (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598647 on 31 May 2012 .
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.


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