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Philine is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Philinidae, the headshield slugs or paper bubbles.
Description
These slugs are oblong-shaped, white, strongly muscular, with a large head-shield often occupying two thirds of the body length. The shell is internal, auriform or subquadrate, thin and fragile. They are active burrowers in mud or silty sand, and carnivorous, feeding upon small bivalves, which they crush with large gizzard-plates.
Species within the genus Philine
- Philine alba Mattox, 1958 - white paper-bubble, white paperbubble
- Philine amabilis Verrill, 1880
- Philine angasi Crosse and Fischer, 1865
- Philine angulata Jeffreys, 1867 - angled paper-bubble, angled paperbubble
- Philine aperta (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Philine auriformis Suter, 1909
- Philine bakeri Dall, 1919
- Philine californica Willett, 1944 - california paper-bubble, California paperbubble
- Philine catena (Montagu, 1803)
- Philine cingulata G. O. Sars, 1878 - girdled paper-bubble, girdled paperbubble
- Philine constricta Murdoch and Suter, 1906
- Philine denticulata (J. Adams, 1800)
- Philine finmarchica M. Sars, 1858 - finmark paper-bubble
- Philine fragilis G. O. Sars, 1878 - fragile paper-bubble, fragile paperbubble
- Philine infortunata Pilsbry, 1895
- Philine infundibulum Dall, 1889
- Philine lima (T. Brown, 1825) - file paper-bubble, file paperbubble
- Philine lineolata (Couthouy, 1839)
- Philine loveni Malm, 1858
- Philine polaris Aurivillius, 1885 - axial paper-bubble, axial paperbubble
- Philine polystrigma (Dall, 1908)
- Philine powelli Rudman, 1870
- Philine pruinosa
- Philine punctata (J. Adams, 1800)
- Philine quadrata (S. V. Wood, 1839) - quadrate paper-bubble, quadrate paperbubble
- Philine sagra (d'Orbigny, 1841) - crenulate paper-bubble, crenulate paperbubble
- Philine scabra Muller, 1784
- Philine sinuata Stimpson, 1851 - sinuate paper-bubble, sinuate paperbubble
- Philine tincta A. E. Verrill, 1882 - tinted paper-bubble, tinted paperbubble
- Philine umbilicata Murdoch and Suter, 1906
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References
- "Philine". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1