Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
Taxonomy Elma was classified within the subfamily Enneinae.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. . Páll-Gergely et al. (2015) 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 and China.
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 Elma pachygyra (Gredler, 1885) Elma sinensis (Möllendorff, 1886) Elma swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866) - type species Elma swinhoei hotawana (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905) 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
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
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