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Ellobium

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Ellobium
apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Ellobium
Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
Ellobium midae
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[2]
  • Alexia (Auricula) Lamarck, 1799
  • Auricula Lamarck, 1799
  • Auricula (Auricella) Möllendorff, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of Auricella Jurine, 1817)
  • Auriculina Kobelt, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of Auriculina Grateloup, 1838; Auriculodes is a replacement name)
  • Auriculodes Strand, 1928
  • Auriculus Montfort, 1810 (unjustified emendation of Auricula)
  • Autonoe Guppy, 1868 (invalid: junior homonym of Autonoe Leach, 1852 [Bivalvia]; Autonoella Wenz, 1947, is a replacement name)
  • Autonoella Wenz, 1947
  • 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

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Species within the genus Ellobium include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  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. ^ a b 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.
  • Raven H. & Vermeulen J.J. (2007). Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo and Singapore. 2. A synopsis of the Ellobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Vita Malacologica. 4: 29-62
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