Ellobium chinense is a species of small, air-breathing, snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.
Ellobium chinense | |
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Apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Ellobiida |
Family: | Ellobiidae |
Genus: | Ellobium |
Species: | E. chinense
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Binomial name | |
Ellobium chinense (Pfeiffer, 1864)
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Synonyms | |
Ellobium chinensis |
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku) and it is Vulnerable species in Japan.[1]
References
edit- ^ (in Japanese) "オカミミガイ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Japanese Red Data Book. accessed 26 August 2010.