Elma

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. 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)