Five new species and two records of Triphorinae (Caenogastropoda, Triphoridae) from Brazil Author Fernandes, Maurício R. Author Pimenta, Alexandre D. text Zootaxa 2015 4012 3 493 513 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.5 4a56275a-7513-4d85-8762-20d379c0c300 1175-5326 241558 3AAEBA6B-4914-4524-AD2B-5436AEB05AC7 Nanaphora Laseron, 1958 Type species. Nanaphora torquesa Laseron, 1958 ; original designation. Recent, Australia . Diagnosis. Small or minute shells, bottle-shaped, and medially inflated, but restricted at base; paucispiral or multispiral protoconch; in the latter, embryonic shell reticulated or with rounded/cruciform granules; larval shell with one or two spiral cords; teleoconch with median spiral cord emerging later; suture barely distinct (based on Laseron 1958 and Marshall 1983 ). Remarks. The genus has up to now 13 species worldwide ( Bouchet & Rosenberg 2014b ), none in the western Atlantic; however, the species previously assigned to Cheirodonta in the western Atlantic actually belong to Nanaphora (see remarks of Nanaphora verbernei comb. nov. ). The genus Opimaphora Laseron, 1958 is likely a junior synonym of Nanaphora ( Marshall 1983 ) , as Laseron (1958) distinguished them by Nanaphora having a paucispiral protoconch and Opimaphora a multispiral protoconch, however this is not a valid feature for distinction between genera ( Bouchet 1990 ). Laseron (1958) considered both genera in the extremity of the short and inflated shells of Triphoridae .