Elachorbis

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Elachorbis
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent [1]
Circulus tatei 001.jpg
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

Iredale, 1914 [2]
Species

See text

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

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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:

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References

  1. 1 2 Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN   0-00-216906-1.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Elachorbis tatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Circulus Jeffreys, 1865". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, accessed 17 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN GASTROPODA PART 1. STREPTONEURA." [ permanent dead link ] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150–171. page 160.
  6. ↑ "Elachorbis Iredale, 1915", ITIS, accessed 17 February 2011.
  7. 1 2 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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