Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Hydrobiidae > Subfamily Hydrobiinae

Ecrobia W. Stimpson, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ventrosia*	Radoman, 1977	synonym

Children

Ecrobia atuca (Boeters, 1988)
Ecrobia grimmi (Clessin, 1887)
Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916)
Ecrobia spalatiana (Radoman, 1973)
Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)
Ecrobia vitrea (Risso, 1826)

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1865). Researchs upon the Hydrobiinae and allied forms: chiefly made upon materials in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 7 (201): 1-59.
basis of record	Oliverio, Marco (2006). Gastropoda Prosobranchia Caenogastropoda, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.
additional source	Haase, M.; Naser, M. D. & Wilke, T. (2010). Ecrobia grimmi in brackish Lake Sawa, Iraq: indirect evidence for long-distance dispersal of hydrobiid gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) by birds. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 76 (1): 101-105. London [February].
additional source	Davis G.M., McKee M. & Lopez G. 1989. The identity of Hydrobia truncata (Gastropoda, Hydrobiinae)—comparative anatomy, molecular-genetics, ecology. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 333–359.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ecrobia W. Stimpson, 1865. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238103

Ruud A. Bank. Ecrobia W. Stimpson, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/dd87d6a1-235f-4613-b9ca-5e3a9701d886