Ellobium
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Ellobium is a genus
of medium-sized, air-breathing, saltmarsh snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
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Ellobium is the type genus
of the family Ellobiidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of medium-sized, air-breathing, saltmarsh snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata. This is the only family in the superfamily Ellobioidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)....
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Ellobium is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the family Ellobiidae.
Species
Species within the genus Ellobium include:- Ellobium aurismalchi
- Ellobium aurismidae
- Ellobium aurisjudae
- Ellobium chinenseEllobium chinenseEllobium chinense is a species of small, air-breathing, snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in Japan and it is Vulnerable species in Japan....
(Pfeiffer, 1864) - Ellobium dominicense
- Ellobium pyramidaleEllobium pyramidaleEllobium pyramidale is a species of small, air-breathing, saltmarsh snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae....
Sowerby, 1822