Heleobia

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heleobia is a genus of small freshwater and brackish water snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae and the superfamily Truncatelloidea.[4]

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Heleobia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cochliopidae
Subfamily: Semisalsinae
Genus: Heleobia
Stimpson, 1865[1]
Type species
Paludestrina culminea
d'Orbigny, 1840
Synonyms[2]
  • Ventrosia Radoman, 1977[3]
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Heleobia is one of three genera (together with Semisalsa and Heleobops) within the subfamily Semisalsinae.[5] Some authors treated Semisalsa as a subgenus of Heleobia.[5]

Species

Species within the genus Heleobia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • subgenus Heleobia (Semisalsa) Radoman, 1974: synonym of Semisalsa Radoman, 1974
  • Heleobia dalmatica (Radoman, 1974): synonym of Semisalsa dalmatica Radoman, 1974
  • Heleobia stagnorum (Gmelin, 1791):[13] synonym of Semisalsa stagnorum (Gmelin, 1791)

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