Trituba

Trituba
Shell of Trituba azorica (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Newtoniellidae
Genus:	Trituba Jousseaume, 1884
Type species
† Triforis bitubulatus Baudon, 1856
Species
See text
Synonyms
Granulotriforis Kosuge, 1967 Paramendax A. W. B. Powell, 1937 Tauroforis Sacco, 1895 Triforis (Granulotriforis) Kosuge, 1967 Triforis (Paramendax) A. W. B. Powell, 1937 † Triforis (Tauroforis) Sacco, 1895 junior subjective synonym Triforis (Trituba) Jousseaume, 1884 superseded rank Trituba (Granulotriforis) Kosuge, 1967 alternative representation Trituba (Paramendax) A. W. B. Powell, 1937 alternative representation

Trituba is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.

General characteristics

(Original description in French) The shell is dextral, elongated, and almost cylindrical, with whorls marked by longitudinal riblets and ornamented with two small cords. The spire consists of nineteen whorls, five of which are embryonic. The body whorl, nearly smooth, divides into three elongated tubes.

Species

Species in the genus Trituba include:

• Trituba additicia Gofas, 2003
• Trituba anelpistos (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981)
• Trituba antepallaxa (B. A. Marshall, 1977)
• Trituba anubis M. Fernandes, Garofalo & Pimenta, 2015
• Trituba apicina (A. W. B. Powell, 1937)
• Trituba attenuatispira (A. W. B. Powell, 1937)
• Trituba azorica Gofas, Freiwald & L. Hoffman, 2023
• Trituba barbadensis (Coomans & Faber, 1984)
• † Trituba bitubulata (Baudon, 1856)
• Trituba blacki (B.A. Marshall, 1977)
• † Trituba chevallieri (Cossmann, 1896)
• Trituba constricta Gofas, 2003
• Trituba dexia (Verco, 1909)
• † Trituba dominici (Gougerot, 1966)
• Trituba elatissima Gofas, 2003
• Trituba epallaxa (Verco, 1909)
• Trituba fallax Gofas, 2003
• † Trituba fenestrata (Cossmann, 1889)
• Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003
• Trituba incredita Gofas, 2003
• Trituba lima Gofas, 2003
• † Trituba neozelanica (Laws, 1939)
• Trituba nonnitens (Barnard, 1963)
• † Trituba obliquecostulata (Kaunhowen, 1898)
• † Trituba plicata (Deshayes, 1834)
• Trituba recurvata Gofas, 2003
• † Trituba sorgenfreii (Schnetler, 1990)
• Trituba superstes (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981)
• Trituba tanseiae (Kosuge, 1967)
• † Trituba tauroturrita (Sacco, 1895)
• † Trituba tertia (Lozouet, 1999)
• † Trituba triforis (A. d'Orbigny, 1850)
• Trituba tui (B. A. Marshall, 1977)
• † Trituba umboseriata Darragh, 2017
• † Trituba zecollata (Laws, 1941)

References

• Kosuge, S. (1967). Description of a new dextral triforiid, Triforis tanseiae n. sp. with some considerations on its allied forms. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. 10: 125-132.
• Gofas, S. (2003). An endemic radiation of Trituba (Mollusca, Gastropoda) on the North Atlantic seamounts. American Malacological Bulletin. 17(1-2): 45-63

External links

• Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII; Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia v. 33 (1909)
• Powell, A.W.B. (1937). "New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 205.
• Sacco, F. (1895). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XVII. (Cerithiidae, Triforidae, Cerithiopsidae e Diastomidae). Torino: Carlo Clausen. p. 62.
• Marshall, B.A. "The systematic position of Triforis Deshayes". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7 (1): 85–88.

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