Hydatina Explained

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

Species

Species within this genus include:

Hydatina albocincta Van der Hoeven, 1839
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