Micrelenchus
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| Micrelenchus Temporal range: | |
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| Shell of Micrelenchus purpureus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Micrelenchus Finlay, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| Trochus (Gibbium) sanguineus Gray, 1843 | |
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Micrelenchus is a genus of small sea snails that have shells with pearly interiors and an operculum. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails or top shells.[2]
This genus is only known to occur in New Zealand.
