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Lamprohaminoea ovalis Pease, 1868
Lamprohaminoea (Genus) lives in warm or temperate seas.They have a bubble shaped shell.Therefore it is called bubble snail.Bubble snails live in sandy or muddy bottom.All Haminoeidae snails are herbivorous. Species feed on a various kinds of green algae.
Lamprohaminoea ovalis has a strongly inflated transparent shell.The body colour is translucent, green, orange or purple spotted.Younger animals are often darker such as adults.
Lamprohaminoea ovalis feeds on blue-green algae Lyngbya.Lyngbya is a genus of cyanobacteria.
It occurs at depths of 1 to 12 m.
Synonymised names
Haminea cyanomarginata Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea cyanomarginata Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea linda E. Marcus & J. B. Burch, 1965 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea ovalis Pease, 1868 · unaccepted (original combination)
Lamprohaminoea cyanomarginata (Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Lamprohaminoea linda (E. Marcus & J. B. Burch, 1965) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Lamprohaminoea (Genus) lives in warm or temperate seas.They have a bubble shaped shell.Therefore it is called bubble snail.Bubble snails live in sandy or muddy bottom.All Haminoeidae snails are herbivorous. Species feed on a various kinds of green algae.
Lamprohaminoea ovalis has a strongly inflated transparent shell.The body colour is translucent, green, orange or purple spotted.Younger animals are often darker such as adults.
Lamprohaminoea ovalis feeds on blue-green algae Lyngbya.Lyngbya is a genus of cyanobacteria.
It occurs at depths of 1 to 12 m.
Synonymised names
Haminea cyanomarginata Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea cyanomarginata Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea linda E. Marcus & J. B. Burch, 1965 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Haminoea ovalis Pease, 1868 · unaccepted (original combination)
Lamprohaminoea cyanomarginata (Heller & T. E. Thompson, 1983) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Lamprohaminoea linda (E. Marcus & J. B. Burch, 1965) · unaccepted (junior synonym)