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Elachorbis tatei (Angas 1878)

Elachorbis tatei ( Anglèis )

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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

  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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Elachorbis tatei: Brief Summary ( Anglèis )

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Elachorbis tatei is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tornidae.

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