''Elachorbis'' is a

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Tornidae Tornidae is a family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Tornidae Sacco, 1896 (1884). Acc ...

Taxonomy

The exact placement of this genus has long been contested.

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established ''Elachorbis'' in 1914 within the family

Liotiidae Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2013). Liotiidae Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of ...

. Cotton (1945) also classified ''Elachorbis'' within the family Liotiidae.

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(1979) and ITIS (2011) classified ''Elachorbis'' within the family

Cyclostrematidae Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2013). Liotiidae Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of ...

(which is a synonym of Liotiidae). Various authors have classified this genus in the Skeneidae, which is now the

Skeneinae Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a family of small to large marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Turbinidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies ...

, a subfamily within the Turbinidae. The genus ''Elachorbis'' is sometimes referred to the subfamily Vitrinellinae within the family Tornidae."''Circulus'' Jeffreys, 1865"
OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, accessed 17 February 2011. However, ''Elachorbis'' is also sometimes considered to be a synonym of '' Circulus''; ''Circulus'' is the type genus of the subfamily Circulinae within the Tornidae.

Species

Species within the genus ''Elachorbis'' include: * ''

Elachorbis diaphana ''Elachorbis diaphana'' is a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tornidae. This species is only known to occur in the area of the Foveaux Strait, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in t ...

'' Finlay, 1924 * '' Elachorbis subtatei'' (

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Elachorbis tatei ''Elachorbis tatei'' is a species of minute sea snail with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tornidae. Distribution This species can be found along the coast of Western Australia and S ...

'' ( Angas, 1878) - type species of the genus ''Elachorbis'' - synonyms: ''Cyclostrema tatei'' Angas, 1878; ''Circulus tatei'' (Angas, 1878)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3170923 Tornidae Extant Oligocene first appearances