Elma (gastropod)
| Elma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Subfamily: | Streptaxinae or Gibbinae[1] |
| Genus: | Elma Adams, 1866[2] |
| Diversity[1] | |
| about 10 species | |
Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[3]
Taxonomy
Elma was classified within the subfamily Enneinae.[3] Páll-Gergely et al. (2015)[1] classified Elma according to the first internal anatomy research of the genus either in Streptaxinae or in the Gibbinae.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Elma includes Taiwan, northern Vietnam[3] and China.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Elma include:
- Elma oblongata Yen, 1939[1]
- Elma swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866) - type species[2][1]
- Elma swinhoei hotawana (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Páll-Gergely B., Hunyadi A., Varga A. & Rowson B. (2015). "Anatomy and taxonomic position of Elma H. Adams, 1866: a high-spired Southeast-Asian genus of Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata)". Folia Malacologica 23(2): 155-164. doi:10.12657/folmal.023.013.
- 1 2 Adams H. (1866). Descriptions of fifteen new species of land and freshwater shells from Formosa, collected by Robert Swinhoe, Esq., consul at Taiwan in that island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 34: 316–319, page 317.
- 1 2 3 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
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