Elma (gastropod)

Genus of gastropods

Elma

Shell of Elma fultoni (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Family:  | Streptaxidae
Genus:  | Elma
Adams, 1866[1]
Type species
Ennea swinhoei H. Adams, 1866

Diversity[2]
about 10 species
Synonyms

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

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

## Taxonomy

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Elma was classified within the subfamily Enneinae.[3] Páll-Gergely et al. (2015)[2] classified Elma according to the first internal anatomy research of the genus either in Streptaxinae or in the Gibbinae.

## Distribution

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The distribution of the genus Elma includes Taiwan, northern Vietnam[3] and China.[2]

## Species

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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[2]
* Elma pachygyra (Gredler, 1885)
* Elma sinensis (Möllendorff, 1886)
* Elma swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866) \- type species[1][2]
* Elma swinhoei hotawana (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)[2]
* 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

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1. ^ a b 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.
2. ^ a b c d e f 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.
3. ^ a b c 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

## External links

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* 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. (1866): 316-319 , pl. 33
* Varga A. (2012). On the genus Elma H. Adams, 1866 (Mollusca, Streptaxiidae). Folia Historico Naturalis Musei Matraensis. 36: 5-13

Taxon identifiers

Elma|

* Wikidata: Q5366362
* CoL: 7NVTZ
* GBIF: 4598895
* IRMNG: 1012225
* Open Tree of Life: 2881963
* WoRMS: 996797

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