Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Eupulmonata > Order Ellobiida > Superfamily Ellobioidea > Family Ellobiidae > Subfamily Ellobiinae

Ellobium Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Auricula (Auriculina)*	Kobelt, 1898	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Alexia (Auricula)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym
*Auricula*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym
*Auriculodes*	Strand, 1928	synonym
*Ellobium (Auriculodes)*	Strand, 1928	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Auricula venetiensis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1841

Literature

original description	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. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
basis of record	Frias Martins A.M. de. (1996). Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia. 37: 163-332.
additional source	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.
additional source	Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ellobium Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206412