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Heleobia

Heleobia
Heleobia stagnorum shell.jpg
Apertural view of the shell of Heleobia stagnorum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Cochliopidae
Subfamily: Semisalsinae
Genus: Heleobia
Stimpson, 1865
Type species
Paludestrina culminea
d'Orbigny, 1840
Synonyms

Ventrosia Radoman, 1977


Ventrosia Radoman, 1977

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.

Heleobia is one of three genera (together with Semisalsa and Heleobops) within the subfamily Semisalsinae. Some authors treate Semisalsa as a subgenus of Heleobia.

Species within the genus Heleobia include:


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