Elachorbis
| Elachorbis Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1] | |
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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 |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Tornidae[3][4] |
| Subfamily: | either Vitrinellinae[3][4] or Circulinae cf.[4] |
| Genus: | Elachorbis Iredale, 1914[2] |
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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.
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)
References
- 1 2 Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Elachorbis tatei". gastropods.com, accessed 17 February 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Circulus Jeffreys, 1865". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, accessed 17 February 2011.
- ↑ "SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN GASTROPODA PART 1. STREPTONEURA." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150-171. page 160.
- ↑ "Elachorbis Iredale, 1915", ITIS, accessed 17 February 2011.
- 1 2 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ "Elachorbis diaphana". gastropods.com, accessed 17 February 2011.
- ↑ "Elachorbis subtatei". gastropods.com, accessed 17 February 2011.