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The origin of the mangrove and saltmarsh snail Ellobium (Eupulmonata, Ellobiidae)

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The pulmonate gastropod genus Ellobium has its greatest diversity in the modern Indo-West Pacific Region (IWP). Its origin, however, is traced to the Early Oligocene of the Northeastern Atlantic and the Western Tethys Region. Two Ellobium species are documented from the Rupelian of France and Italy and a new species is recorded from the Chattian of Hungary: Ellobium kerwaensis nov. sp. The first records in the IWP are known from the Early Miocene, suggesting an eastward range expansion of the genus around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, when Ellobium became extinct in the European seas. Extant Ellobium species are bound to habitats above the high tide line in salt marshes and mangroves. Comparable environmental requirements are expected for the fossil congeners. Ellobium may derive from Eocene ancestors, such as the Bartonian Eoellobium heberti from the Northeastern Atlantic. Eoellobium is introduced in this paper as a new genus.

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Harzhauser, M.; Pacaud, J.-M.; Landau, B.M. (2023). The origin of the mangrove and saltmarsh snail Ellobium (Eupulmonata, Ellobiidae). Taxonomy 3(1): 68-84. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy3010007

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