Elma (gastropod)

Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[3]

Elma
Shell of Elma fultoni (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Streptaxinae or Gibbinae[1]
Genus:
Elma

Adams, 1866[2]
Type species
Ennea swinhoei H. Adams, 1866
Diversity[1]
about 10 species
Synonyms

Ennea (Elma) H. Adams, 1866 (original rank)

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 fultoni (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912)
  • Elma mansuyi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906)
  • Elma matskasii Varga, 2012
  • Elma messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1904)
  • Elma microstoma (Möllendorff, 1881)
  • Elma mitis Heude, 1890
  • Elma oblongata Yen, 1939[1]
  • Elma pachygyra (Gredler, 1885)
  • Elma sinensis (Möllendorff, 1886)
  • Elma swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866) - type species[2][1]
    • Elma swinhoei hotawana (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)[1]
  • Elma tonkiniana (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Subgenus Elma (Fultonelma) F. Haas, 1951 : synonym of Pseudelma (Fultonelma) F. Haas, 1951 represented as Pseudelma Kobelt, 1904
  • Elma (Fultonelma) bisexigua F. Haas, 1951: synonym of Pseudelma (Fultonelma) bisexigua (F. Haas, 1951) represented as Pseudelma bisexigua (F. Haas, 1951) (basionym)
  • Elma bisexigua F. Haas, 1951: synonym of Pseudelma bisexigua (F. Haas, 1951) (original combination)

References
  1. 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.
  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.
  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.
  • Bavay, A. & Dautzenberg, P., 1912. -Description de coquilles nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie 60: 1-54
  • Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180
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