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Genus of gastropods

Elachorbis
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei, the type species of the genus Elachorbis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Tornidae
Subfamily: either Vitrinellinae or Circulinae cf.
Genus: Elachorbis
Iredale, 1914
Species

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Elachorbis is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tornidae.

Taxonomy

The exact placement of this genus has long been contested.

Tom Iredale established Elachorbis in 1914 within the family Liotiidae. Cotton (1945) also classified Elachorbis within the family Liotiidae. Powell (1979) and ITIS (2011) classified Elachorbis within the family Cyclostrematidae (which is a synonym of Liotiidae).

Various authors have classified this genus in the Skeneidae, which is now the Skeneinae, a subfamily within the Turbinidae.

Main article: Circulus (gastropod)

The genus Elachorbis is sometimes referred to the subfamily Vitrinellinae within the family Tornidae. However, Elachorbis is also sometimes considered to be a synonym of Circulus; Circulus is the type genus of the subfamily Circulinae within the Tornidae.

Species

Species within the genus Elachorbis include:

References

  1. ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
  2. ^ Iredale T. (1914). "A Commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca".". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 47: 417-497. page 443. HTM.
  3. ^ "Elachorbis tatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Circulus Jeffreys, 1865". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, accessed 17 February 2011.
  5. "SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN GASTROPODA PART 1. STREPTONEURA." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150–171. page 160.
  6. "Elachorbis Iredale, 1915", ITIS, accessed 17 February 2011.
  7. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  8. "Elachorbis diaphana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
  9. "Elachorbis subtatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
Taxon identifiers
Elachorbis
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