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Hydatina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Aplustridae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
genus

Superfamily
  
Acteonoidea

Scientific name
  
Hydatina

Higher classification
  
Aplustridae

Hydatina hydatina amplustre a seaslug from Reunion island Indian Ocean

Lower classifications
  
Hydatina physis, Hydatina zonata, Hydatina albocincta

Hydatina is a genus of sea snails, bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplustridae.

Contents

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Species

Species within this genus include:

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  • Hydatina albocincta Van der Hoeven, 1839
  • Hydatina amplustre Linnaeus, 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 physis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Hydatina velum Gmelin, 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 zonata Solander in Lightfoot, 1786 zoned paper bubble

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    References

    Hydatina Wikipedia
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