Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London
Author
Albano, Paolo G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9876-1024
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A- 1090 Vienna, Austria
pgalbano@gmail.com
Author
Bakker, Piet A. J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4683-2083
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands
Author
Sabelli, Bruno
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2019
2019-04-22
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.32803
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.32803
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Euthymella leucocephala Kosuge, 1963
Figure 58
Euthymella leucocephala
Kosuge 1963b
: 260-261, pl. 18, fig. 5, text figs 5, 8.
Type
locality.
Ankyaba, Setouchi-machi, Amami Islands.
Type
material.
Holotype
: TZM Mo. 13064 (fide
Kosuge 1963b
; not seen, illustrated in
Higo et al. 2001
: 51, G1686).
Paratype
:
NHMUK
1966139:
1 specimen
, Amami Islands,
Japan
.
Original description.
Shell medium in size, apex blunt, conical, somewhat inflated at the middle of the spire and slightly narrowed at the body whorl. Protoconch of a single whorl, mammillate and smooth. Mature whorl 9, each whorl convex and widely separated by a rather deep grooved suture, encircled by a fine supra-sutural thread. Sculpture consists of 3 rows of granules, median row somewhat larger than the others at the lower spire, equal in size at the early 2 or 3 whorls and rapidly diminished at its first whorl; each granule spirally elongate and well elevated from the crossing points of broad axial columns and spiral costae which are deeply latticed, aparts from each other by about its diameter and 14 to a whorl. On the body whorl, fourth row of granules encircles the periphery, the other 2 slender, smooth, spiral ridges the base and the anterior canal which is short and recurved backward. Protoconch and early 2 whorls white, remainder dark reddish brown.
Shell length:
6.8 mm
.
Remarks: This species is easily distinguished by its protoconch, white apex and spirally elongated granules. It is somewhat related to
E. regalis
Jousseaume and
E. isaotakii
Kosuge, though differs in its protoconch, shell shape and colour-pattern, and also differs from
Notosinister atratus
Kosuge in its sculpture and protoconch.
Figure 58.
Triphora leucocephala
Kosuge, 1963, Amami Islands, Japan.
A-E, G-I
Paratype
,
NHMUK
1966139: front (
A, B
), side (
C, D
), back (
E
), protoconch (
G, H
), aperture (
I
).
F
Original figure.
J
NHMUK
label. Scale bars:
A-E
:
1 mm
;
G, H
:
0.2 mm
;
I
:
0.5 mm
.