Hinea Explained

Hinea is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Planaxidae.^[1]

Species

Species in the genus Hinea include:

• Hinea akuana (Rehder, 1980)
• Hinea atra (Pease, 1869)
• Hinea brasiliana (Lamarck, 1822)
• Hinea fasciata (Pease, 1868)
• Hinea inepta (Gould, 1861)
• Hinea lineata (E. M. da Costa, 1778) - dwarf planaxis
• Hinea longispira (E. A. Smith, 1872)
• Hinea nucleola (Mörch, 1876)
• Hinea punctostriata (E. A. Smith, 1872)
• Hinea zonata (A. Adams, 1853)

External links

• • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219.
• Dall, W. H. (1926). New shells from Japan and the Loochoo Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 39: 63-66

Notes and References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Hinea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598427 on 2012-07-12