Hipponicidae

Hipponicidae
A shell of Malluvium otohimae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Hipponicoidea
Family:	Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861
Genera
See text
Synonyms [1]
Amaltheidae (Invalid: type genus a junior homonym of Amalthea Rafinesque, 1815 [Hymenoptera]) Cheileidae Macpherson & Chapple, 1951

Hipponicidae, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Hipponicoidea. ^[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Hipponicidae include:

• Antisabia Iredale, 1937
• Cheilea Modeer, 1793 – synonym: Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817 ^[2]
• Hipponix DeFrance, 1819 ^[3]
• Leptonotis Conrad, 1866 ^[4]
• Malluvium Melvill, 1909 ^[5]
• Milicheilea Espinosa & Ortea, 2011
• Pilosabia Iredale, 1929
• Sabia Gray, 1841 ^[6]

Genera brought into synonymy

• AmaltheaSchumacher, 1817: ^[7] synonym of Sabia Gray, 1841
• Cheila : synonym of CheileaModeer, 1793 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Hipponyx [sic] : synonym of HipponixBlainville, 1819 (misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
• KrebsiaMörch, 1877: synonym of HipponixBlainville, 1819
• MitrulariaSchumacher, 1817: synonym of Cheilea Modeer, 1793
• Neojanacus Suter, 1907 ^[8] : synonym of Leptonotis Conrad, 1866
• TenpetasusIredale, 1929: synonym of HipponixBlainville, 1819

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23057 on 2025-09-22
2. WoRMS (2010). Cheilea. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204713 on 29 December 2010
3. WoRMS (2010). Hipponix Defrance, 1819. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138072 on 29 December 2010
4. Gofas, S. (2010). Leptonotis. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138073 on 29 December 2010
5. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Malluvium. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598660 on 30 May 2012
6. WoRMS (2010). Sabia Gray, 1841. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180991 on 29 December 2010
7. WoRMS (2010). Amalthea Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206478 on 29 December 2010
8. WoRMS (2010). Neojanacus. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456474 on 29 December 2010

• MacPherson, J. H. and E. H. Chapple. (1951). A systematic list of the marine and estuarine Mollusca of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 17: 107-185
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN   0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
• Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1–2): 1–397.

External links

• Troschel, F. H. (1856-1893) - Das Gebiss der Schnecken zur Begründung einer natürlichen Classification. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin.
• Dall, W.H. (1889). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 18: 289.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
• Simone, L.R.L. (2002). "Comparative morphological study and phylogeny of representatives of the superfamily Calyptraeoidea (including Hipponicoidea) (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda)". Biota Neotropica. 2 (2). Retrieved 22 September 2025.