Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea

Hydrobiidae W. Stimpson, 1865

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Amnicolinae
Belgrandiinae
Boetersiella Arconada & Ramos, 2001
Chondrobasis Arconada & Ramos, 2001
Hydrobiinae W. Stimpson, 1865
Iberhoratia Arconada & Ramos, 2007
Lithoglyphinae
Mercuriinae Boeters & Falkner, 2017
Meyrargueria Girardi, 2009
Paludestrina A. d'Orbigny, 1841
Pauluccinella Giusti & Pezzoli, 1990
Pseudamnicolinae Radoman, 1977
Pseudopaludinella Bourguignat, 1876
Radomaniola Szarowska, 2006
Tateinae
Terrestribythinella Sitnikova, Starobogatov & V. Anistratenko, 1992

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: mud snails; spring snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Wasserdeckelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: tusensnäckor

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1865). Diagnoses of newly discovered genera of gasteropods, belonging to the sub-fam. Hydrobiinae of the family Rissoidae. American Journal of Conchology. 1(1): 52-54.
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Baker, H. B. (1960). Hydrobiidae or Truncatellidae?. The Nautilus. 74(1): 34-35.
additional source	Kabat, A. R. & Hershler, R. (1993). The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): Review of classification and supraspecific taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 547: 1-94.
status source	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
taxonomy source	Delicado, D.; Hauffe, T.; Wilke, T. (2023). Fifth mass extinction event triggered the diversification of the largest family of freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae). Cladistics.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hydrobiidae W. Stimpson, 1865. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120

Ruud A. Bank. Hydrobiidae W. Stimpson, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7ccf2f0d-a5c2-4a77-af81-b2569a3fe624