Elachorbis tatei

Elachorbis tatei
	Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Tornidae
Genus:	Elachorbis
Species:	E. tatei; (Angas, 1878)
Binomial name
	Elachorbis tatei;
Synonyms
	Cyclostrema tatei Angas, 1878;; Circulus tatei (Angas, 1878);

Elachorbis tatei is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tornidae.^[1]

Distribution[edit]

This species can be found along the coast of Western Australia and South Australia in shallow waters and in depths up to 150 fathoms (or 275 m).

Description[edit]

The small shell varies in thickness. It possesses two coarse, spiral keels (a spiral ridge usually marking a change of slope in the outline of the shell) that can vary in strength or even be obsolete. The shell has a wide perspective umbilicus, and a discontinuous peristome.

References[edit]

^ "Elachorbis tatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 18 February 2011.

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

External links[edit]

Southern Australian gastropoda, Elachorbis tatei, accessed 18 February 2011^{[permanent dead link]}

This Tornidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Elachorbis tatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 18 February 2011.

[1]