Elachorbis

Elachorbis is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tornidae.[3][4]

Elachorbis
Temporal range:
Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei, the type species of the genus Elachorbis.[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Tornidae[3][4]
Subfamily:
either Vitrinellinae[3][4] or Circulinae cf.[4]
Genus:
Elachorbis

Species

See text

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.

Main article: Circulus (gastropod)

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:

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. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 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.
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