page_title: Haminoea
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Haminoea / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Haminoea navicula, a sea snail from the family Haminoeidae
context_page_description: Haminoea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.
context_section_description: Species within the genus Haminoea include:
  Haminoea alfredensis P. Bartsch, 1915 - Distribution: South Africa, Length: 9–17 mm, Description: has a broad radular ribbon with about 40 teeth in each half row; translucent greenish color, dotted with yellow to orange spots.
  Haminoea ambigua (A. Adams, 1850)
  Haminoea angelensis F. Baker & G. D. Hanna, 1927 - Distribution: Gulf of California, Mexico, Length: 7 mm.
  Haminoea antillarum d'Orbigny, 1841 - Antilles Glassy-bubble, Antilles Paper-bubble - Distribution: Florida, Caribbean, Brazil. Length: 12–20 mm.
  Haminoea antillarum guadaloupensis Sowerby II, 1868 - Distribution : Florida, Cuba, Guadaloupe, Length: 12–18 mm, Description: globose shell with greenish yellow color, covered with longitudinal striae (= stripes); mantle with white  to greenish background with small black dots.
  Haminoea binotata Pilsbry, 1895
  Haminoea cyanocaudata Heller & Thompson, 1983
  Description : translucent with green color (caused by growths of green algae), mottled with lightbrown spots, outlined in white, and darker brown dots; There can be a wide variation in the color pattern. This species is fairly uncommon, but, when found, it is always in large aggregations.
  Haminoea cymbiformis Carpenter, 1856
  Distribution : Mexico
  Haminoea elegans Gray, 1825 Atlantic Elegant Paper Bubble; Elegant Glassy Bubble
  Distribution : West Africa, Florida, Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
  Length : 23.5 mm
  Description : found at depths up to 34 m; translucent mantle with patches of  brown and black; posterior end of the headshield is not bilobed; shell with spiral grooves.
  Haminoea exigua Schaefer, 1992
  Haminoea flavescens (A. Adams, 1850)
  Haminoea fusari Alvarez, E.F.García, & Villani, 1993
  Haminoea fusca Pease, 1863
  Distribution : Indo-Pacific
  Length : 25 mm
  Description : color of the shell : varies from greenish to brown, and light purple.
  Haminoea galba W. H. Pease, 1861
  Distribution : Indo Pacific
  Haminoea glabra A. Adams, 1850
  Distribution : Yucatán, Panama
  Length : 4.3 mm
  Haminoea hydatis Linnaeus, 1758
  Distribution : SW Britain, Ireland, France and south to the Mediterranean, Madeira and Canaries; Ascension Island, St. Helena, west coast of Africa
  Length : 8–30 mm (shell : 15 mm)
  Description : fragile shell hidden by the  mantle and parapodial lobes in crawling animals. Herbivorous swimming dark brown snail found on muddy sands, shell grit and algae fields, down to unknown depths.
  Haminoea japonica Pilsbry, 1895
  Haminoea margaritoides Kuroda & Habe, 1971 - Distribution: Japan, Length: 7 mm
  Haminoea navicula da Costa, 1778 - Distribution: SW Britain, south to the Mediterranean, Ascension Island, St. Helena; Atlantic and Mediterranean costas of France and Spain; Black Sea, Length: up to 70 mm (shell: 32 mm), Description: larger species, with heavier and darker-white shell; cephalic shield with short tentacular processes at front. Found on muddy sands especially among Eelgrass, Zostera marina. Does not swim. This species is able to change its color to correspond with its environment. The color pigments (or melanophores) in the skin can be obscured. The skin color can change in this way from dark brown to white in four to five hours. (Edlinger, Malacologia 22; 1982)
  Haminoea orbignyana A. de Férussac, 1822
  Distribution : France to West Africa; Mediterranean, Eastern Atlantic
  Length : 7 mm
  Haminoea orteai F. G. García Talavera, Murillo, & Templado, 1987
  Distribution : Southern Spain
  Haminoea padangensis Thiele, 1825 Padang’s Delicate Bubble
  Distribution : West-Pacific
  Length : 11 mm
  Haminoea peruviana d'Orbigny, 1842
  Distribution : Peru
  Length : 11 mm
  Haminoea petersi (Martens, 1879)
  Haminoea petitii d'Orbigny, 1841 Straight Glassy-bubble 
  Distribution: Caribbean, Florida, Colombia, Brazil
  Length : 12 mm
  Haminoea solitaria T. Say, 1822 Solitary Glassy-bubble, Say’s Paper-bubble, Solitary Paper-bubble
  Distribution : Canada, Massachusetts to Florida
  Length : 8–19 mm
  Description : common bubble snail; oblong smooth shell; bluish-white to yellowish-brown.
  Haminoea succinea (T.A. Conrad, 1846) Amber Glassy-bubble
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caption: shell of Haminoea navicula
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