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