| Hipponix | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Vanikoroidea |
| Family: | Hipponicidae |
| Genus: | Hipponix DeFrance, 1819[1] |
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Hipponix, common name hoof snails or hoof shells, is a genus of small limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Hipponicidae.
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Species within the genus Hipponix include
NOTE: According to notes in Malacolog 4.1.1, H. antiquatus was described without a type locality. This same species was previously considered to occur in both the Eastern Pacific and the Western Atlantic, but some records of this species from the Western Atlantic may in fact be H. leptus instead.