''Elachorbis'' is a

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Tornidae Tornidae is a family (biology), family of very small and minute sea snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae.Bouchet ...

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. Powell (1979) and

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(2011) classified ''Elachorbis'' within the family Cyclostrematidae (which is a synonym of Liotiidae). Various authors have classified this genus in the Skeneidae, which is now the Skeneinae, a subfamily within the

Turbinidae 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.marinespecie ...

. 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''

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, 1924 * '' Elachorbis subtatei'' (

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

'' ( 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