Ellobium

Ellobium
apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Ellobiinae
Genus: Ellobium
Synonyms
  • Alexia (Auricula) Lamarck, 1799
  • Auricula Lamarck, 1799
  • Auriculus Montfort, 1810 (unjustified emendation of Auricula)
  • Ellobium (Auriculodes) Strand, 1928
  • Ellobium (Ellobium) Röding, 1798
  • Geovula Swainson, 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]

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

shells of Ellobium pyramidale

Species

Species within the genus Ellobium include:

  • Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium aurismalchi
  • Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium chinense (Pfeiffer, 1864)
  • Ellobium dominicense (Férussac, 1821)
  • Ellobium gangeticum (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Ellobium gaziense (Preston, 1913)
  • Ellobium incrassatum (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
  • Ellobium pyramidale Sowerby, 1822
  • Ellobium semisculptum H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Ellobium stagnale (d'Orbigny, 1835)
  • Ellobium subnodosum (Metcalfe, 1851)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Ellobium barbadense Röding, 1798: synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium dactylus (Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium gangetica [sic]: synonym of Ellobium gangeticum (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Ellobium labrosum Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium midae Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium subtile Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)

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. ↑ 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. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  • Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332.


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