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Haminoea virescens Green Bubble Snail

Haminoea virescensis commonly referred to as Green Bubble Snail. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Jeff Goddard, USA

Haminoea virescens.2014

10 mm long, fully mature adult; from wave-exposed shore at mouth of Catalina Harbor. I changed my identification of this animal from H. ovalis after seeing that the veligers hatching from its egg masses matched those hatching from H. virescens egg masses collected on the mainland.Even after spotting their white egg masses (on thin algal turf), the adults were very difficult to find. We also found its egg masses on the NW side of Isthmus Harbor. The egg masses of H. virescens from mainland southern California are larger and yellow in color.
Courtesy of the author Jeff Goddard, USA Copyright Jeff Goddard, USA. Please visit www.flickr.com for more information.

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lexID:
13473 
AphiaID:
575157 
Scientific:
Haminoea virescens 
German:
Grüne Blasenschnecke 
English:
Green Bubble Snail 
Category:
Headshield slugs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Cephalaspidea (Order) > Haminoeidae (Family) > Haminoea (Genus) > virescens (Species) 
Initial determination:
(G. B. Sowerby II, ), 1833 
Occurrence:
Alaska (Western Atlantic), Central Pazific, Gulf of California, Mexico (East Pacific), Panama, USA 
Marine Zone:
Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tides. 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Habitats:
Bays, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Lagoons, Seawater, Sea water, Tide pools / rock pools 
Size:
0.79" - 1.57" (2,4cm - 4,5cm) 
Food:
Algae, Herbivorous 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-12-28 14:58:23 

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Haminoea virescens (G. B. Sowerby II, 1833)

Snails genus Haminoeidae lives in warm or temperate seas. They have a bubble shaped shell. Therefore it is called bubble snail. All Haminoeidae snails are herbivorous. Species feed on a various kinds of green algaes.

The background colour of the body varies from a translucent brown to translucent green with milky yellow spots. Parapodia can also white mottling. The shell, like most of the genus is thin, and fragile, transparent to translucent and yellowish-green in colour.

Similar to Verwechslungsmöglichkeit besteht mit Haminoea vesicula.

Synonymised names:
Bulla virescens G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (original combination)
Haminea cymbiformis Carpenter, 1857
Haminoea strongi F. Baker & Hanna, 1927
Haminoea virescens var. rosacea Spicer, 1933

Direct children (1):
Variety Haminoea virescens var. rosacea Spicer, 1933 accepted as Haminoea virescens (G. B. Sowerby II, 1833)

External links

  1. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 28.12.2023.
  2. seaslugforum.net (en). Abgerufen am 26.12.2020.

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Spawn

Haminoea virescens and eggs.Low intertidal pool, Naples, California.2014

Commonly

Haminoea virescens,Crown Point, Mission Bay, San Diego, California,January 22, 2016
Haminoea virescens.2014
Green bubble snail.Haminoea virescens. 2018

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