Hemisinidae

Hemisinidae is a family of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.^[1]

Genera

• Aylacostoma Spix, 1827
• Cubaedomus Thiele, 1928
• Hemisinus Swainson, 1840
• Pachymelania E. A. Smith, 1893
• † Pyrgulifera Meek, 1871

Synonyms

• Basistoma I. Lea, 1852: synonym of Hemisinus (Basistoma) I. Lea, 1852 represented as Hemisinus Swainson, 1840
• Claviger Haldeman, 1842: synonym of Pachymelania E. A. Smith, 1893 (invalid: junior homonym of Claviger Preyssler, 1790 [Coleoptera]; Vibex, Pachymelania, Hemipirena and Itameta are replacement names)
• Gonioconcha Bonarelli, 1921 †: synonym of Pyrgulifera Meek, 1871 † (junior subjective synonym)
• Hantkenia P. Fischer, 1885 †: synonym of Pyrgulifera Meek, 1871 † (junior synonym)
• Hemipirena Rovereto, 1899: synonym of Pachymelania E. A. Smith, 1893
• Itameta Ihering, 1909: synonym of Pachymelania E. A. Smith, 1893
• Semisinus P. Fischer, 1885: synonym of Hemisinus Swainson, 1840 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Hemisinus Swainson, 1840)
• Vibex Gray, 1847: synonym of Pachymelania E. A. Smith, 1893 (Vibex Gray has consistently been treated as invalid and its junior objective synonym Pachymelania is in current use.)

References

• Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526.
• Glaubrecht M. & Neiber M.T. (2019). Hemisinidae Fischer & Crosse, 1891. pp. 51–55, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press