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Cheilea
Sign in to saveCheilea is a genus of small limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyHipponicidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 486
- With media
- 26
- Family
- Hipponicidae
- Collections
- LACM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, SDNHM, CAS, UF, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Tonga, Indonesia, Fiji
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- Parent taxon
- Hipponicidae
- Image
- Cheilea equestris 001.jpg
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Cheilea is a genus of small limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.
==Species== Species within the genus Cheilea include: Cheilea africana Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2014 Cheilea americana Rolán, Redfern & Fernández-Garcés, 2014 Cheilea atlantica Rolán, Leal & Fernández-Garcés, 2014 Cheilea cepacea (Broderip, 1834) Cheilea cicatricosa (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea corrugata (Broderip, 1834) Cheilea dormitoria (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea equestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Cheilea hipponiciformis (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea imbricata (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807) † Cheilea janitrix Maxwell, 1966 Cheilea microstriata Barnard, 1963 † Cheilea plumea Laws, 1932 † Cheilea postera Laws, 1936 Cheilea scutulum (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea striata Nowell-Usticke, 1959 Cheilea tortilis (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea uncinata (Reeve, 1858) Cheilea undulata (Röding, 1798) Species brought into synonymy: Cheilea papyracea: synonym of Cheilea equestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Cheilea porosa Reeve, 1858 : synonym of Cheilea equestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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