Elachorbis
Genus of gastropods
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Elachorbis is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tornidae.[3][4]
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| Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei, the type species of the genus Elachorbis.[2] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Tornidae |
| Genus: | Elachorbis Iredale, 1914[2] |
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Taxonomy
The exact placement of this genus has long been contested.
Tom Iredale established Elachorbis in 1914 within the family Liotiidae.[2] Cotton (1945)[5] also classified Elachorbis within the family Liotiidae. Powell (1979)[1] and ITIS (2011)[6] classified Elachorbis within the family Cyclostrematidae (which is a synonym of Liotiidae).[7]
Various authors have classified this genus in the Skeneidae, which is now the Skeneinae, a subfamily within the Turbinidae.[citation needed]
The genus Elachorbis is sometimes referred to the subfamily Vitrinellinae within the family Tornidae.[3][4] However, Elachorbis is also sometimes considered to be a synonym of Circulus;[4] Circulus is the type genus of the subfamily Circulinae within the Tornidae.[7]
Species
Species within the genus Elachorbis include:
- Elachorbis diaphana Finlay, 1924[8]
- Elachorbis subtatei (Suter, 1907)[9]
- Elachorbis tatei (Angas, 1878)[3] - type species of the genus Elachorbis[2] - synonyms: Cyclostrema tatei Angas, 1878; Circulus tatei (Angas, 1878)