Ellobium chinense

Ellobium chinense
Apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Ellobium
Species:
E. chinense
Binomial name
Ellobium chinense
(Pfeiffer, 1864)
Synonyms

Ellobium chinensis

Ellobium chinense is a species of small, air-breathing, snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

apertural and abapertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense
old shell of Ellobium chinense

Distribution

This species occurs in Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku) and it is Vulnerable species in Japan.[1]

References

  1. ^ (in Japanese) "オカミミガイ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Japanese Red Data Book. accessed 26 August 2010.


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