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Elachorbis tatei

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Elachorbis tatei
Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei
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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Elachorbis tatei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
  • Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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