Hipponicidae

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Hipponicidae
A shell of Malluvium otohimae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Hipponicoidea
Family: Hipponicidae
Troschel, 1861
Genera

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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]

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