Ellobium
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| apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Ellobiinae |
| Genus: | Ellobium Röding, 1798[1] |
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. 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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