Ellobium

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Ellobium
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apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Ellobium
Röding, 1798 [1]
Type species
Ellobium midae
Röding, 1798
Synonyms [2]
  • Alexia (Auricula)Lamarck, 1799
  • AuriculaLamarck, 1799
  • Auricula (Auricella)Möllendorff, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of AuricellaJurine, 1817)
  • AuriculinaKobelt, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of AuriculinaGrateloup, 1838; Auriculodes is a replacement name)
  • AuriculodesStrand, 1928
  • AuriculusMontfort, 1810 (unjustified emendation of Auricula)
  • AutonoeGuppy, 1868 (invalid: junior homonym of AutonoeLeach, 1852 [Bivalvia]; AutonoellaWenz, 1947, is a replacement name)
  • AutonoellaWenz, 1947
  • Ellobium (Auriculodes)Strand, 1928
  • Ellobium (Ellobium)Röding, 1798
  • GeovulaSwainson, 1840 (objective synonym of Ellobium)

Ellobium is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. [2]

Contents

Ellobium is the type genus of the family Ellobiidae. [3]

shells of Ellobium pyramidale Ellobium pyramidale-2.jpg
shells of Ellobium pyramidale

Species

Species within the genus Ellobium include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Ellobium Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206412 on 2014-06-10
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.