Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Acteonimorpha > Superfamily Acteonoidea > Family Acteonidae

Hemiauricula Deshayes, 1853

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Fortisia*	Bayan, 1870	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Liocarenus*	G. F. Harris & Burrows, 1891	synonym

Literature

original description	Deshayes, G. P. (1839-1858). Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie: avec les applications de cette science à la géologie. Vol. 1(1): xii + 368 pp. [1839]; vol. 1(2), 824 pp., 6 fold-out tables [pp. 1-128, 1839; 129-824: 1850]; vol. 2: 384 pp. [pp. 1-194: 1857: 195-348: 1858; Atlas: 80 + xi pp., 132 pls. with various numbers; Explication des planches [pp. 1-24: 1839; pp. 25-48: 1850; pp. 49-80: 1853; appendice pp. i-iv: 1850, pp. v-xi: 1857]. Masson, Paris.
basis of record	Salvador R.B. & Cunha C.M. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the fossil genera Bulimactaeon, Hemiauricula (= Liocarenus) and Nucleopsis, with description of a new Recent genus and species (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Acteonidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 82(3): 472-483.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hemiauricula Deshayes, 1853 †. 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:880456