Hipponicidae

Hipponicidae, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.^[1]

Hipponicidae
A shell of Malluvium otohimae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861
Genera
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Synonyms[1]
Amaltheidae (Invalid: type genus a junior homonym of Amalthea Rafinesque, 1815 [Hymenoptera]) Cheileidae

Genera

Genera within the family Hipponicidae include:

• Antisabia Iredale, 1937
• Cheilea Modeer, 1793 – synonym: Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817^[2]
• Hipponix DeFrance, 1819^[3]
• Leptonotis Conrad, 1866^[4]
• Malluvium Melvill, 1909^[5]
• Milicheilea Espinosa & Ortea, 2011
• Neojanacus Suter, 1907^[6]
• Sabia Gray, 1841^[7]

Genera brought into synonymy

• Amalthea Schumacher, 1817:^[8] synonym of Sabia Gray, 1841
• Hipponyx Defrance, 1819: synonym of Hipponix Defrance, 1819
• Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Cheilea Modeer, 1793