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Lamprohaminoea ovalis Oval Bubble Snail

Lamprohaminoea ovalis is commonly referred to as Oval 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 linda


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lexID:
6643 
AphiaID:
599461 
Scientific:
Lamprohaminoea ovalis 
German:
Ovale Blasenschnecke 
English:
Oval Bubble Snail 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Cephalaspidea (Order) > Haminoeidae (Family) > Lamprohaminoea (Genus) > ovalis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Pease, ), 1868 
Occurrence:
Australia, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Hawaii, Marschall Islands, Okinawa, Philippines, Red Sea, Samoa, Tahiti, the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Vanuatu, Western Pacific Ocean 
Sea depth:
1 - 30 Meter 
Habitats:
Algae zones, Coralline soils, coral quarry, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0" - 0.39" (0,5cm - 1,5cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Red slime algae 
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
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-12-10 19:57:06 

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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)

External links

  1. OPK (en). Abgerufen am 03.10.2024.
  2. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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