Hydatina
Encyclopedia
Hydatina is a genus
of a sea snail
s, bubble snails, marine
opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplustridae.
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 a sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, bubble snails, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplustridae.
Species
Species within this genus include:- Hydatina albocinctaHydatina albocinctaHydatina albocincta, common name the White-banded bubble, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplustridae.-References:...
Van der Hoeven, 1839
- Hydatina amplustre LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 1758 royal paper bubble, ship’s flag shell, swollen bubble.- Distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific, Australia, South Africa to Hawaii, Madagascar.
- Length: 1.5–4 cm
- Description: active at night, it lives in shallow water on reefs, with a mix of sand, rock and tuf algae; predator feeding on polychaete worms; smaller and more heavily calcified shell than the other members of this species; shell with horizontal lines, with lightbrown stripes, outlined in black, alternating with translucent white stripes; the animal is too large to fit inside its shell. Empty shells are used by hermit crabs.
- Hydatina cinctoria Perry, 1811 (color variant and synonym of Hydatina zonata).
- Distribution: South Africa
- Hydatina exquisita Voskuil, 1995
- Distribution: Marquesas Islands
- Length: 21 mm
- Description: very globose, thin shell with black and purplish spiral bands on body whorl and a narrow white band below the suture and at anterior end: anterior end of the columella is directed slightly to the right.
- Hydatina montilai Delsaerdt, 1996
- Distribution: Philippines.
- Hydatina physisHydatina physisHydatina physis is a species of sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplustridae. Its common names include striped paper bubble, green-lined paper bubble, brown-lined paper bubble, and rose petal bubble shell.-Distribution:This bubble snail's...
(LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 1758)
- Hydatina velum GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
, 1791 (probably color variant and synonym of Hydatina zonata)- Distribution: Indian Ocean, East Africa
- Length: 25–50 mm
- Hydatina vesicaria (Lightfoot, 1786) brown-lined paper bubble
- Distribution: Florida, Mexico, Caribbean.
- Length: 17–45 mm
- Description: lives on the bottom at the depth of 8 m to 64 m; very fragile and delicate shell with fine brown spiral lines
- Hydatina zonataHydatina zonataHydatina zonata, common name the zoned paper bubble, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aplustridae.- Description :...
SolanderDaniel SolanderDaniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.-Biography:...
in Lightfoot, 1786 zoned paper bubble