Haminoea
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Haminoea is a genus
of medium-sized sea snail
s or bubble snails, marine
opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family
Haminoeidae
, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea
, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.
Three different spellings (Haminoea, Haminea, Haminaea) were used for this genus over two hundred years. The ICZN
finally made a decision that the correct spelling is Haminoea.
Many species within this genus have green algae growing on their shells. The posterior tip of the headshield is bilobed, except in Haminoea elegans.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of medium-sized sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s or bubble snails, marine
Marine (ocean)
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opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
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Haminoeidae
Haminoeidae
Haminoeidae, commonly known as the haminoeid bubble snail family, is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Haminoeoidea....
, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea
Cephalaspidea
The suborder Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a clade of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia....
, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.
Three different spellings (Haminoea, Haminea, Haminaea) were used for this genus over two hundred years. The ICZN
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals...
finally made a decision that the correct spelling is Haminoea.
Many species within this genus have green algae growing on their shells. The posterior tip of the headshield is bilobed, except in Haminoea elegans.
Species
Species within the genus Haminoea include:- Haminoea alfredensis P. Bartsch, 1915 - Distribution: South Africa, Length: 9–17 mm, Description: has a broad radulaRadulaThe radula is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared rather inaccurately to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus...
r ribbon with about 40 teeth in each half row; translucent greenish color, dotted with yellow to orange spots. - Haminoea angelensis F. Baker & G. D. Hanna, 1927 - Distribution: Gulf of California, Mexico, Length: 7 mm.
- Haminoea antillarum d'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
, 1841 - Antilles Glassy-bubble, Antilles Paper-bubble - Distribution: Florida, Caribbean, Brazil. Length: 12–20 mm.- Haminoea antillarum guadaloupensis Sowerby II, 1868 - Distribution : Florida, Cuba, Guadaloupe, Length: 12–18 mm, Description: globose shell with greenish yellow color, covered with longitudinal striae (= stripes); mantle with white to greenish background with small black dots.
- Haminoea brevis QuoyJean René Constant QuoyJean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...
& GaimardJoseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...
, 1833 - Distribution: Australia - Haminoea calledegenita Gibson & Chia, 1989 - Distribution: West America, Description: has a deeply bifurcate headshield.
- Haminoea crocata
- Haminoea curta A. Adams, 1850 - Distribution: Pacific
- Haminoea cyanomarginata Heller & Thompson, 1983
- Distribution : Greece, Turkey, Italy, Red Sea.
- Length : 20 mm
- Description: colorful animal: cream-white mantle bordered with a purple line on the parapodia, headshield and the infrapallial lobe
- Haminoea cymbalumHaminoea cymbalumHaminoea cymbalum, sometimes known as the Cymbal bubble snail, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Haminoeidae, one of the families of bubble snails.-Distribution:...
QuoyJean René Constant QuoyJean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...
& GaimardJoseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...
, 1833- Distribution : West-Pacific, Indonesia to Hawaii, Japan
- Length : 13– 20 mm
- Description : translucent withgreen color (caused by growths of green algae), mottled with lightbrown spots, outlined in white, and darker brown dots; There can be a wide variation in the color pattern. This species is fairly uncommon, but, when found, it is always in large aggregations.
- Haminoea cymbiformis CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1856- Distribution : Mexico
- Haminoea elegans GrayGeorge Robert GrayGeorge Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years...
, 1825 Atlantic Elegant Paper Bubble; Elegant Glassy Bubble- Distribution : West Africa, Florida, Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
- Length : 23.5 mm
- Description : found at depths up to 34 m; translucent mantle with patches of brown and black; posterior end of the headshield is not bilobed; shell with spiral grooves.
- Haminoea ferruginosa A. Adams, 1850
- Distribution : Indian Ocean
- Haminoea fusari Alvarez, E.F.García, & Villani, 1993
- Haminoea fusca Pease, 1863
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Length : 25 mm
- Description : color of the shell : varies from greenish to brown, and light purple.
- Haminoea galba W. H. Pease, 1861
- Distribution : Indo Pacific
- Haminoea glabra A. Adams, 1850
- Distribution : Yucatan, Panama
- Length : 4.3 mm
- Haminoea gracilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1897
- Distribution : South Africa
- Length : 10–14 mm
- Haminoea guildingii Swainson, 1840
- Haminoea hydatis Linnaeus, 1758
- Distribution : SW Britain, Ireland, France and south to the Mediterranean, Madeira and Canaries; Ascension Island, St. Helena, west coast of Africa
- Length : 8–30 mm (shell : 15 mm)
- Description : fragile shell hidden by the mantle and parapodial lobes in crawling animals. Herbivorous swimming dark brown snail found on muddy sands, shell grit and algae fields, down to unknown depths.
- Haminoea cyanomarginata Heller & Thompson, 1983
- Haminoea japonicaHaminoea japonicaHaminoea japonica, common name the Japanese bubble snail, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Haminoeidae, one of the families of bubble snails.-Distribution:...
Pilsbry, 1895 - Haminoea margaritoides Kuroda & Habe, 1971 - Distribution: Japan, Length: 7 mm
- Haminoea maugeansis Burn, 1966 - Distribution: Tasmania
- Haminoea natalensis C. F. Krauss, 1848 - Distribution: South Africa, Length: 6 mm, Description: broad radulaRadulaThe radula is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared rather inaccurately to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus...
r ribbon with 7 teeth in each half row.
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- Haminoea navicula da Costa, 1778 - Distribution: SW Britain, south to the Mediterranean, Ascension Island, St. Helena; Atlantic and Mediterranean costas of France and Spain; Black Sea, Length: up to 70 mm (shell: 32 mm), Description: larger species, with heavier and darker-white shell; cephalic shield with short tentacular processes at front. Found on muddy sands especially among Eelgrass, Zostera marina. Does not swim. This species is able to change its color to correspond with its environment. The color pigments (or melanophores) in the skin can be obscured. The skin color can change in this way from dark brown to white in four to five hours. (Edlinger, Malacologia 22; 1982)
- Haminoea orbignyana A. de Férussac, 1822 -
- Distribution : France to West Africa; Mediterranean, Eastern Atlantic
- Length : 7 mm
- Haminoea orteai F. G. García Talavera, Murillo, & Templado, 1987
- Distribution : Southern Spain
- Haminoea ovalis Pease, 1868
- Distribution : tropical West Pacific
- Length : 10 mm
- Description : translucent body mottled with orange or purple spots; radulaRadulaThe radula is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared rather inaccurately to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus...
with lateral teeth denticulate.
- Haminoea padangensis ThieleJohannes ThieleJohannes Thiele, full name Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work...
, 1825 Padang’s Delicate Bubble- Distribution : West-Pacific
- Length : 11 mm
- Haminoea peruviana d'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
, 1842- Distribution : Peru
- Length : 11 mm
- Haminoea petiti d'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
, 1841 Straight Glassy-bubble- Distribution: Caribbean, Florida, Colombia, Brazil
- Length : 12 mm
- Haminoea pygmaea A. Adams, 1850
- Distribution : Japan
- Haminoea solitaria T. SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822 Solitary Glassy-bubble, Say’s Paper-bubble, Solitary Paper-bubbleDistribution : Canada, Massachusetts to Florida- Length : 8–19 mm
- Description : common bubble snail; oblong smooth shell; bluish-white to yellowish-brown.
- Haminoea strongi Baker & Hanna, 1927
- Distribution : Gulf of California, Mexico
- Length : 14 mm
- Haminoea succinea (T.A. Conrad, 1846) Amber Glassy-bubble
- Distribution : caribbean, Florida, Colombia, Venezuela, Bermuda
- Length : 12 mm
- Haminoea taylorae E. J. Petuch, 1987
- Distribution : Caribbean
- Haminoea tenera A. Adams, 1850
- Distribution : Australia
- Haminoea vesicula A. A. Gould, 1855 Blister Glassy-bubble, White Paper-bubble, Gould’s Paper-bubble
- Distribution : West America, Alaska, Gulf of California, Mexico
- Length : 19 mm
- Description : common on muddy flats and on eelgrass; the middle posterior part of the cephalic shield has an indent; brown or greenish-yellowi shell; large, barrel-shaped body whorl covered by a rust periostracum; involute (= sunken) spire; long aperture; outer lip gradually increasing in width; the snail cannot retract completely into its shell.
- Haminoea virescens Sowerby, 1833 Green Glassy-bubble, Green Paper-bubble, Sowerby’s Paper-bubble
- Distribution : Northwestern America from Puget Sound (Seattle) to Gulf of California.
- Length : 13–19 mm
- Description : Thin, fragile shell is ovate and yellowish-green; involute (= sunken) spire, with small perforation; body whorl with longitudinak growth ridges and minute grooves; large apertureAperture (mollusc)The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc....
; thin outer lip
- Haminoea wallisi GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, 1825- Distribution : Australia
- Haminoea zelandiaeHaminoea zelandiaeHaminoea zelandiae, common name the white bubble shell, is a species of medium-sized sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Haminoeidae, the bubble snails.-References:* Powell A. W...
GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, 1843 White Bubble- Distribution : New Zealand
- Length : 30 mm (shell : 20 mm)
- Description : very common; translucent snail with variable coloring, going from pale color with black dots, to a uniform black color; broad headshield; parapodia fold up and envelop most of the shell; thin, ovate translucent shell.
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B.Arthur William Baden PowellDr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the twentieth century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".Powell was born at...
(1979). New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers LtdHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1 - Pownall G. (1979). New Zealand Shells and Shellfish. Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467-054-8