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Haminoeidae
A drawing of the shell of Atys naucum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Superfamily:
Haminoeoidea
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Cephalaspidea
Family:
Haminoeidae

Pilsbry, 1895
Genera

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 name of this family has long been controversial, and used to be Atyidae or Atydidae. Another, but incorrect, spelling was Haminaeidae (See (ICZN) 2000. Opinion 1942).

A number of genera have been proposed for this family, but the species are hard to identify (or sometimes impossible to identify) by looking only at the external characteristics. Until the internal anatomy of 'wet' specimens has been fully described, the status of many of the genera listed here is uncertain.

Distribution

These bubble snails occur in all warm or temperate seas.

Habitat

These are sand dwellers or they live on muddy bottoms, in bays, estuaries, and close to the shore in tidepools.

Description of the live animal

These are colorful snails, that can partially take the color of the sea floor.

Their large cephalic shield is rounded at the front, but deeply lobed behind. The mantle protrudes behind the shell. The shell is partially or completely enfolded by lateral parapodial (= fleshy winglike outgrowths) lobes.

Shell description

Their shell varies in size according to the species, from 3 mm to 30 mm.

The shell is ovoid, thin and translucent. It may be smooth or have spiral grooves (striae). The umbilical apex is sunken or enclosed and no longer visible. Large body whorl with fine spiral striations. Smooth columella. The thin outer lip of the aperture extends beyond the apex of the shell and is thus longer than the body whorl. The aperture narrows posteriorly and is wider anteriorly.

Life habits

These snails are herbivorous. Their diet consists of various kinds of green algae. They can survive in brackish water.

They are hermophroditic. Their eggs are deposited in round or oval jellylike strings, attached to eelgrass or sand.

Atys naucum and Atys cylindricum are known to show biological fluorescence.

Further treatment at Cephalaspidea and Haminoeoidea.

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Haminoeidae include:

There have been three different spellings (Haminoea, Haminea, Haminaea) in usage for the same genus for over two hundred years. The ICZN has finally settled on the correct spelling Haminoea. Many species have green algae growing on their shells. The posterior tip of the headshield is bilobed, except in Haminoea elegans.

    • Haminoea alfredensis P. Bartsch, 1915
      • Distribution : South Africa
      • Length : 9-17 mm
      • Description : has a broad radular 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'Orbigny, 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 Quoy & Gaimard, 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
    • Haminoae cymbalum Quoy & Gaimard, 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 Carpenter, 1856
      • Distribution : Mexico
    • Haminoea elegans Gray, 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 japonica T. Habe Japanese Delicate Bubble
      • Distribution : Japan, Korea, Thailand
      • Length : 19 mm
    • 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 radular ribbon with 7 teeth in each half row.
    • 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; radula with lateral teeth denticulate.
    • Haminoea padangensis Thiele, 1825 Padang’s Delicate Bubble
      • Distribution : West-Pacific
      • Length : 11 mm
    • Haminoea peruviana d'Orbigny, 1842
      • Distribution : Peru
      • Length : 11 mm
    • Haminoea petiti d'Orbigny, 1841 Straight Glassy-bubble
      • Distribution: Caribbean, Florida, Colombia, Brazil
      • Length : 12 mm
    • Haminoea pygmaea A. Adams, 1850
      • Distribution : Japan
    • Haminoea solitaria T. Say, 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 aperture; thin outer lip
    • Haminoea wallisi Gray, 1825
      • Distribution : Australia
    • Haminoea zelandiae 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
  • Genus Hamineobulla Habe, 1950 (incertae sedis; may be belong to the family Bullidae)
    • Hamineobulla kawamurai Habe, 1950
      • Distribution : Okinawa
      • Length : 6 mm
      • Description : brown animal with short cephalic shield; on the shell there are a few transverse rows with brighter dots
  • Genus Liloa Pilsbry, 1921

Since most of these bubble snails were named on the basis of the shell alone, the occurrence of synonyms among the following species is quite possible.

References
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