Hydrobia

Hydrobia
Apertural view of a shell of Hydrobia ulvae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Hydrobia
Hartmann, 1821
Synonyms
  • Hydrobia (Littorinella) Herrmannsen, 1847
  • Leachia Risso, 1826 (Rejected name (ICZN Opinion 2161), preoccupied by Leachia Lesueur, 1821 [Cephalopoda])
  • Litorinella Braun, 1843
  • Peringia Paladilhe, 1874

Hydrobia is a genus of very small brackish water snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

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