Biology:Elachorbis

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


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
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either Vitrinellinae[3][4] or Circulinae cf.[4]
Genus:
Elachorbis

Iredale, 1914[2]
Species

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

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]

Main page: Biology: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. 1.0 1.1 Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN:0-00-216906-1.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Elachorbis tatei" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_17134.shtml. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Circulus Jeffreys, 1865". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, accessed 17 February 2011.
  5. "SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN GASTROPODA PART 1. STREPTONEURA."[yes|permanent dead link|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. 7.0 7.1 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" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_32214.shtml. 
  9. "Elachorbis subtatei" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_31492.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3170923 entry