Hipponicidae

Hipponicidae, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Hipponicoidea.

Genera

Genera within the family Hipponicidae include:

• Antisabia Iredale, 1937
• Cheilea Modeer, 1793 – synonym: Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817
• Hipponix DeFrance, 1819
• Leptonotis Conrad, 1866
• Malluvium Melvill, 1909
• Milicheilea Espinosa & Ortea, 2011
• Pilosabia Iredale, 1929
• Sabia Gray, 1841

Genera brought into synonymy

• Amalthea Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Sabia Gray, 1841
• Cheila: synonym of Cheilea Modeer, 1793 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Hipponyx [sic]: synonym of Hipponix Blainville, 1819 (misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Krebsia Mörch, 1877: synonym of Hipponix Blainville, 1819
• Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Cheilea Modeer, 1793
• Neojanacus Suter, 1907: synonym of Leptonotis Conrad, 1866
• Tenpetasus Iredale, 1929: synonym of Hipponix Blainville, 1819

• MacPherson, J. H. and E. H. Chapple. (1951). A systematic list of the marine and estuarine Mollusca of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 17: 107-185
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
• Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1–2): 1–397.

External links

• Dall, W.H. (1889). . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 18: 289.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN0-00-216906-1
• Simone, L.R.L. (2002). . Biota Neotropica. 2 (2).