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

Hydrobiidae Stimpson, 1865

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bythiospeum Bourguignat, 1882
Ecrobia Stimpson, 1865
Hydrobia Hartmann, 1821
Mercuria Boeters, 1971
Obrovia Radoman, 1974
Peringia Paladilhe, 1874

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: brakwaterhorens; drijfhorentjes sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: spring snails

English-United States: mud snails sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: tusensnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Kabat A.R. & Hershler R. The Prosobranch Snail Family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): Review of Classification and Supraspecific Taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547, 94 pp.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Hydrobiidae Stimpson, 1865. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120