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

Hydrobia W. Hartmann, 1821

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leachia*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Obrovia*	Radoman, 1974	synonym

Children

Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
Hydrobia cattaroensis (Westerlund, 1886)
Hydrobia declinata Frauenfeld, 1863
Hydrobia djerbaensis Wilke, Pfenninger & G. M. Davis, 2002
Hydrobia glyca (Servain, 1880)
Hydrobia montenegrina (Schutt, 1959)
Hydrobia newtoni (Gude, 1913)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: wadslakjes

English: mud snails sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: hydrobie sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Wattschnecken

Literature

original description	Hartmann, J. D. W. (1821). System der Erd- und Flußschnecken der Schweiz. Mit vergleichender Aufzählung aller auch in den benachbarten Ländern, Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien sich vorfindenden Arten. In: J.R. Steinmüller (ed.). Neue Alpina. Eine Schrift der Schweizerischen Naturgeschichte, Alpen- und Landwirthschaft gewiedmet. Erster Band: 194-268, pl. 1-2. Winterthur.
additional source	Biggs, H. E. J. (1937). Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau. Journal of Conchology. 20 (12): 342-350. London [23 September].
status source	ICZN. (2003). Opinion 2034 (Case 3087). Hydrobia Harmann, 1821: conserved by replacement of the lectotype of Cyclostoma acutum Draparnaud, 1805 (currently Hydrobia acuta; Mollusca, Gastropoda) with a neotype; Ventrosia Radoman, 1977: Turbo ventrosus Montagu, 1803 designated as the type species; and Hydrobiina Mulsant, 1844 (Coleoptera): spelling emended to Hydrobiusina, so removing the homonymy with Hydrobiidae Troschel, 1857 (Gastropoda). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 60(2): 152-154.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hydrobia W. Hartmann, 1821. 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:138081

Ruud A. Bank. Hydrobia W. Hartmann, 1821. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ff2d3e12-38a4-404c-a9bc-5919a4ba1985