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
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 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)