Ellobium

Ellobium
	apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Ellobium; Röding, 1798
Type species
	Ellobium midae ; Röding, 1798;
Synonyms
	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]

Species

Species within the genus Ellobium include:

Ellobium australe Röding, 1798: synonym of Placostylus fibratus (Martyn, 1784)
Ellobium barbadense Röding, 1798: synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ellobium dactylus (Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ellobium durlstonense Arkell, 1941 †: synonym of Juramarinula durlstonensis (Arkell, 1941) † (new combination)
Ellobium gangetica [sic]: synonym of Ellobium gangeticum (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Ellobium grande (Briart & Cornet, 1887) †: synonym of Semiauricula grandis (Briart & Cornet, 1887) † (new combination)
Ellobium labrosum Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ellobium midae Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ellobium oparicum H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Auriculastra oparica (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) (original combination)
Ellobium semiplicatum H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Auriculastra semiplicata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) (original combination)
Ellobium subtile Röding, 1798: synonym of Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)

^ 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.
^ ^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
^ 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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