Elachorbis tatei

Elachorbis tatei is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tornidae.^[1]

Elachorbis tatei
Ventral view of a shell of Elachorbis tatei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Tornidae
Genus:	Elachorbis
Species:	E. tatei
Binomial name
Elachorbis tatei (Angas, 1878)
Synonyms
Cyclostrema tatei Angas, 1878; Circulus tatei (Angas, 1878)

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.