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Species List for Family: Hipponicidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Vanikoioidea (Superfamily) > Hipponicidae (Family)

  • Family: Hipponicidae

  • Antisabia foliacea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Great Mercury Island, from 0-508m
  • Hipponix liberatus (Pease, 1868)
    Length 16mm, Width 12mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island, from 0m
  • Leptonotis perplexus (Suter, 1907)
    Length 20mm, Width 15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Living inside the lip of gastropods
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Snares Islands and Chatham Rise, from 55-840m
  • Malluvium calcareum (Suter, 1909)
    Length 22mm, Width 14mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Attached to shells
    West Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings, North, South, Snares, Auckland, Campbell and Chatham Islands, Challenger Plateau and Mernoo Bank, from 94-1006m
  • Sabia australis (Lamarck, 1819)
    Length 16mm, Width 12mm
    Marine
    Northland to Mercury Islands. On dead gastropod shells
  • Sabia conica (Schumacher, 1817)
    Length 15mm, Width 12mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Lives on other gastropod shells
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands and Poor Knights Islands, from 5-46m
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