Elachorbis

Taxobox
name = "Elachorbis"
fossil_range = Oligocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Elachorbis"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1915
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Elachorbis" is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

Members of this genus are found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand.

Description

The shells are small, white, semitransparent, spirally lirate to coarsely spirally keeled, with a wide perspective umbilicus, and a discontinuous peristome, slightly thickened and ledged within the outer lip, but not .

pecies within the genus "Elachorbis"

* "Elachorbis diaphana" Finlay, 1924
* "Elachorbis subtatei" (Suter, 1907)
* "Elachorbis tatei" (Angas, 1878)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1