Elachorbis tatei
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Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei | |
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Species: | E. tatei (Angas, 1878)
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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[edit]
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).
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Description[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "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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