Genus Symethis Weber, 1795

Type species. Hippa variolosa Fabricius, 1793 [Type locality: erroneously given as “in Oceano Indico”].

Remarks. The genus Symethis includes a second American species, S. garthi Goeke, 1981 from the eastern Pacific, and also S. corallicola Davie, 1989 from the Indo-West Pacific (Davie, 1989; Takeda & Manuel, 2000; Takeda & Manuel-Santos, 2006).