Heleobia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cochliopidae |
Subfamily: | Semisalsinae |
Genus: | Heleobia Stimpson, 1865 [1] |
Type species | |
Paludestrina culminea d'Orbigny, 1840 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Heleobia is a genus of small freshwater and brackish water snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae and the superfamily Truncatelloidea. [4]
Heleobia is one of three genera (together with Semisalsa and Heleobops ) within the subfamily Semisalsinae. [5] Some authors treated Semisalsa as a subgenus of Heleobia. [5]
Species within the genus Heleobia include: