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Haminoea orteai Bubble snail

Haminoea orteai is commonly referred to as 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.


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Haminoea orteai, Copyright Dr.Peter Wirtz


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lexID:
8964 
AphiaID:
140077 
Scientific:
Haminoea orteai 
German:
Blasenschnecke 
English:
Bubble Snail 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Cephalaspidea (Order) > Haminoeidae (Family) > Haminoea (Genus) > orteai (Species) 
Initial determination:
Talavera, Murillo & Templado, 1987 
Occurrence:
Azores, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Habitats:
Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0.59" - 0.79" (1.5cm - 2cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 68 °F (°C - 20°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore) 
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
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More related species
in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-06-08 14:30:26 

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Haminoea orteai Talavera, Murillo & Templado, 1987

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.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Cephalaspidea (Order) > Haminoeoidea (Superfamily) > Haminoeidae (Family) > Haminoea (Genus) > Haminoea orteai (Species)

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