See text Hinemoa is a genus of small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks.

[2] The original description of the genus is short and states that the shells are ovate with a one-whorled protoconch.

[1] The original description of the type species is also rather short and states that the shell is ovate with an obtuse apex and 4½ whorls.

The inner lip is raised anteriorly with a slight umbilical chink between it and the body-whorl.

The shell has two high rounded equidistant spiral ribs on each whorl.