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Taxonomy
Family:
HIPPONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Hipponicidae (Family)
> Sabia (Genus)
> conica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amalthea Schumacher, 1817
=Hipponix Defrance, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Amalthea conica Schumacher, 1817
=Antisabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)
=Hipponix acutus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Hipponix conicus (Schumacher, 1817)
=Patella australis Lamarck, 1819
=Sabia wyattae Powell, 1958
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Taxonomy
Family:
HIPPONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Hipponicidae (Family)
> Sabia (Genus)
> conica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amalthea Schumacher, 1817
=Hipponix Defrance, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Amalthea conica Schumacher, 1817
=Antisabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)
=Hipponix acutus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Hipponix conicus (Schumacher, 1817)
=Patella australis Lamarck, 1819
=Sabia wyattae Powell, 1958
Details: Sabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)
Size/Grows to:
Length 15mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
Eastern Australia, Queensland and NSW, and Kermadec Islands. Lives on other gastropod shells
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, This species has a heavier shell with fewer but stronger ribs than S. australis
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.218)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.145)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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