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Hydrobia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Caenogastropoda
    Superfamily:  
Rissoacea
    Family:  
Hydrobiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Hydrobia HARTMANN, 1821
    Type Species:  
Cyclostoma acutum Draparnaud, 1805, SD GRAY, 1847


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Synonyms

Paludestrina


Geographic Distribution

Perm.(Karroo), Rhodesia; U.Jur.(Oxford.)-Rec., cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.(Karroo), U.Jur.(Oxford.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Entire shell, or early whorls only, acute, whorls convex, smooth or with collabral threads, apertural margin uninterrupted, not thickened. Family = Shell small or minute, smooth or with collabral threads or riblets, rarely spirally carinate. Operculum horny, spiral. [Mostly in fresh or brackish water.]




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