| Micrelenchus Temporal range: Miocene–Recent[1] |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Micrelenchus Finlay, 1926[1] |
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Micrelenchus is a genus of small sea snails that have shells with pearly interiors and an operculum. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails or top shells.
The genus name has become a synonym of Cantharidus Montfort, 1810 [2]
This genus is only known to occur in New Zealand.
Species and subspecies within the genus Micrelenchus include:[3][4][5]