Review of the types of Indo-Pacific Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris
Author
Albano, Paolo G.
Department of Animal Conservation and Public Engagement, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples (Italy) and Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A- 1090 Vienna (Austria) pgalbano @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
Author
Franco, Davide Di
Author
Azzarone, Michele
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A- 1090 Vienna (Austria) davide. di-franco @ senckenberg. de mikeal. mikeal @ gmail. com
franco@senckenberg.de
Author
J., Piet A.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden (The hannco. bakker @
Author
Bakker
Netherlands) @ naturalis. nl
Author
Sabelli, Bruno
Museo di Zoologia dell’Università di Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna (Italy) bruno. sabelli @ unibo. it
sabelli@unibo.it
text
Zoosystema
2023
2023-01-20
45
2
13
106
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a2
1638-9387
7569742
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:11878F2F-A180-44B2-8CBC-F1577E258F6F
Triphoris triliratus
Deshayes, 1863
(
Fig. 11
)
Triphoris triliratus
Deshayes, 1863: 102
, pl. 11, figs 27, 28.
TYPE
LOCALITY. —
La Réunion
.
TYPE
MATERIAL
. —
Syntypes
(but see Remarks).
Reunion Island
•
MNHN-IM-2000-1576;
1 specimen
; from type locality
•
MNHN-IM-2000-1577;
3 specimens
; from type locality
•
MNHN-IM-2000-1578;
1 specimen
; from type locality.
ADDITIONAL
MATERIAL
. —
ReunionIsland •
MNHN-IM-2012-36197;
1 specimen
;
La Réunion
(coll.
M. Jay
)
.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. —
T. testa elongato-turrita
, omnino castaneofusca, apice acuminata; anfractibus tredecimis, transversim aequaliter triliratis, liris simplicibus, interstitiis minutissime punctulatis, ultimo anfractu brevi, ad peripheriam angulato, basi plano; apertura
minima
, subquadrata, canali brevi terminata.
[Latin diagnosis followed by a discussion in French]
TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN TEXT. — Elongated and turreted shell, completely dark brown, acute apex; thirteen whorls, with three equal and simple spiral rows, the interspaces bear very small cavities, short last whorl, angulated at the periphery, flattened at the base; small squarish aperture, ending with a short siphon.
DIAGNOSIS. — Shell cyrtoconoid with flat sides.
Syntypes
3.2- 5.0 mm high. Teleoconch of 8-10 whorls. Three spiral cords present, the second appearing on the second whorl. First and third cords smooth, the second developing flat tubercles. Microsculpture of numerous fine spiral threads in spiral interspaces. Peristome with an additional cord below the second cord. Posterior sinus shallow. Base with two additional smooth spiral cords. Protoconch missing in the
syntypes
. Teleoconch whorls with brown flammulae on a white background. The first thread is darker. Protoconch brown.
REMARKS. — The specimens marked as
syntypes
belong to different species. Lot MNHN-IM-2000-1576 (
Fig. 11
B-I) contains the specimen best matching the original description and figure but lacks the uniform brown colour cited in the original description (“
omnino castaneofusca
”). Lot MNHN-IM-2000-1577 contains
three specimens
belonging to two species different from
T. triliratus
: two are fragments that have the second spiral cord just as a fine thread (
Fig. 11K, L
), the third is probably a
Viriolopsis
B. A.
Marshall, 1983
(
Fig. 11M
). Lot MNHN-IM-2000-1578 contains a damaged specimen which is probably
T. intergranosa
Hervier, 1898
(
Fig. 11N
). This situation would require the designation of a
lectotype
. However, we still do not know the intraspecific variability of this species-group and thus if the
syntype
MNHN-IM-2000-1576 can really belong to
T. triliratus
as described. Therefore, we prefer to avoid any designation until the group is better understood.