Elachorbis
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| Elachorbis Fossil range: Oligocene to Recent |
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Elachorbis is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
Members of this genus are found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand.
[edit] 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 variciform.
[edit] Species within the genus Elachorbis
- Elachorbis diaphana Finlay, 1924
- Elachorbis subtatei (Suter, 1907)
- Elachorbis tatei (Angas, 1878)
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
