Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Eupulmonata > Order Ellobiida > Superfamily Ellobioidea

Ellobiidae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Carychiinae Jeffreys, 1830
Ellobiinae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822)
Melampodinae W. Stimpson, 1851 (1850)
Pythiinae Odhner, 1925 (1880)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: oorslakken sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: coastal snails; hollow-shelled snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Küstenschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: オカミミガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: dvärgsnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Romero, P. E., Pfenninger, M., Kano, Y. & Klussmann-Kolb, A. (2016). Molecular phylogeny of the Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata) supports independent terrestrial invasions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97: 43-54.
additional source	Morrison, J. P. E. (1964). Notes on American Melampidae. The Nautilus. 77(4): 119-121.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ellobiidae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:198

Ruud A. Bank. Ellobiidae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e728e808-23a8-4369-9011-476b09e8acbf