Ellobium

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon= Ellobium

|image = Okamimigai0905-1.jpg

|image_caption = apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense

|authority= Röding, 1798Röding 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.

|type_species = Ellobium midae
Röding, 1798

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|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)

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

Ellobium is the type genus of the family Ellobiidae.{{Bouchet 2005}}

File:Ellobium pyramidale-2.jpg]]

Species

Species within the genus Ellobium include:

;Species brought into synonymy:

References

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  • 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