Ellobium chinense
| Ellobium chinense | |
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| apertural view of shell of Ellobium chinense | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Ellobiinae |
| Genus: | Ellobium |
| Species: | E. chinense |
| Binomial name | |
| Ellobium chinense (Pfeiffer, 1864) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
External links
"Ellobium chinensis". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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