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[]

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).

Apical view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei

Description[]

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[]

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

External links[]

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