Ellobium

Ellobium
apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Ellobium
Röding, 1798
Type species
Ellobium midae
Röding, 1798
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)

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

Ellobium is the type genus of the family Ellobiidae.