Three different spellings were used for this genus over two hundred years. The ICZN finally made a decision that the correct spelling is Haminoea. Oskars et al. restricted Haminoea to species from the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, and resurrected Haloa and Lamprohaminoea for Indo-Pacific species.
Description
Many species within this genus have green algae growing on their shells. The posterior tip of the headshield is bilobed, except in Haminoea elegans.
Species
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
Haminoea angelensis F. Baker & G. D. Hanna, 1927 - Distribution: Gulf of California, Mexico, Length: 7 mm.
*Haminoea antillarum guadaloupensisSowerby II, 1868 - Distribution : Florida, Cuba, Guadaloupe, Length: 12–18 mm, Description: globose shell with greenish yellow color, covered with longitudinal striae ; mantle with white to greenish background with small black dots.
Haminoea binotata Pilsbry, 1895
Haminoea cyanocaudata Heller & Thompson, 1983
*Description : translucent with green color, 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 elegansGray, 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.
*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
*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 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, 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 in the skin can be obscured. The skin color can change in this way from dark brown to white in four to five hours. 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
Haminoea vesicula A. A. Gould, 1855 Blister Glassy-bubble, White Paper-bubble, Gould’s Paper-bubble
*Distribution : West America, Alaska, Gulf of California, Mexico
*Length : 19 mm
*Description : common on muddy flats and on eelgrass; the middle posterior part of the cephalic shield has an indent; brown or greenish-yellowy shell; large, barrel-shaped body whorl covered by a rust periostracum; involute spire; long aperture; outer lip gradually increasing in width; the snail cannot retract completely into its shell.
Haminoea virescens Sowerby, 1833 Green Glassy-bubble, Green Paper-bubble, Sowerby’s Paper-bubble
*Distribution : Northwestern America from Puget Sound to Gulf of California.
*Length : 13–19 mm
*Description : Thin, fragile shell is ovate and yellowish-green; involute spire, with small perforation; body whorl with longitudinak growth ridges and minute grooves; large aperture; thin outer lip
*Description : very common; translucent snail with variable coloring, going from pale color with black dots, to a uniform black color; broad headshield; parapodia fold up and envelop most of the shell; thin, ovate translucent shell.
; Species brought into synonymy:
Haminoea angusta Gould, 1859:synonym of Cylichnatys angusta
Haminoea callidegenita :synonym of Haminoea japonica Pilsbry, 1895 Distribution: West America, Description: has a deeply bifurcate headshield.
Haminoea cornea :synonym of Haminoea navicula
Haminoea crocata Pease, 1860:synonym of Haloa crocata
Haminoea curta A. Adams, 1850: synonym of Liloa curta
Haminoea cymbalumQuoy & Gaimard, 1833:synonym of Lamprohaminoea cymbalum
Haminoea cymoelium Monterosato, 1917:synonym of Haminoea hydatis
Haminoea cyanomarginata Heller & Thompson, 1983:synonym of Lamprohaminoea cyanomarginata
Haminoea grisea E.A. Smith, 1875:synonym of Cylichna alba
Haminoea maugeansis Burn, 1966:synonym of Papawera maugeansis
Haminoea natalensis C. F. Krauss, 1848:synonym of Haloa natalensis
Haminoea ovalis Pease, 1868:synonym of Haloa ovalis
Haminoea taylorae E. J. Petuch, 1987:synonym of Haminoea elegans
Haminoea zelandiae Gray, 1843:synonym of Papawera zelandiae''
