Ellobium

Ellobium is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

Ellobium
apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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 the type genus of the family Ellobiidae.[3]

shells of Ellobium pyramidale

Species

Species within the genus Ellobium include:

  • Ellobium abollenense (Fontannes, 1877) †
  • Ellobium aurisjudae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ellobium boriesi (Plaziat, 1970) †
  • Ellobium chinense (Pfeiffer, 1864)
  • Ellobium citharellaeforme Wenz, 1922 †
  • Ellobium dominicense (Férussac, 1821)
  • Ellobium gangeticum (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Ellobium gaziense (Preston, 1913)
  • Ellobium grateloupi (Tournouër, 1871) †
  • Ellobium hanleyanum (Gassies, 1869)
  • Ellobium heberti (Vasseur, 1881) †
  • Ellobium incrassatum (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
  • Ellobium koerti Huckriede, 1967 †
  • Ellobium lorteti (Fontannes, 1876) †
  • Ellobium namneticum (Vasseur, 1881) †
  • Ellobium oblongum (Deshayes, 1830) †
  • Ellobium olivaeforme (Briart & Cornet, 1887) †
  • Ellobium pontileviense (de Morgan, 1917) †
  • Ellobium pyramidale Sowerby, 1822
  • Ellobium requienii (Matheron, 1843) †
  • Ellobium roberti (de Morgan, 1917) †
  • Ellobium scheepmakeri (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
  • Ellobium scotinum (Cossmann, 1902) †
  • Ellobium semisculptum H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Ellobium simplex (Cossmann, 1895) † (taxon inquirendum)
  • Ellobium stagnale (d'Orbigny, 1835)
  • Ellobium strangulatum (de Morgan, 1917) †
  • Ellobium subjudae (A. d'Orbigny, 1852) †
  • Ellobium subnodosum (Metcalfe, 1851)
  • Ellobium tornatelliforme (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843)
  • Ellobium vicentinum (Fuchs, 1870) †
Species brought into synonymy
  • 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)

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.
  • 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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