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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
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)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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