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
Mastoniaeforis chaperi
Jousseaume, 1884
(
Fig. 41
)
Mastoniaeforis chaperi
Jousseaume, 1884: 243
, pl. 4, figs 4-5.
TYPE
LOCALITY. —
La Réunion
.
TYPE
MATERIAL
. —
Syntype
.
La Réunion
•
MNHN-IM-2000-478;
1 specimen
; from type locality.
ORIGINAL
DESCRIPTION. —
Testa solida, fusiformi, alba ad basin lutea; anfractibus 12-14, subregulariter crescentibus (primi laevigati, pallide luteo-tincti, sequentes seriebus tuberculorum biseriatim dispositis ornati), sutura lineari, interstitiis minore, separatis; ultimo valde attenuato, luteo, seriebus tribus tuberculorum ornato, ad latus sinistrum et prope suturam tubifero; apertura
parva
, ovata, canali brevi, ascendente, unicarinato, luteo, munita. — Long. 4 millim., lat. 1-5 millim.
[Latin diagnosis followed by a discussion in French]
TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN TEXT. — Solid shell, fusiform, white, yellowish at the base; from 12 to 14 whorls, slightly regularly growing (first whorls are smooth, coloured in light yellow, subsequent whorls are adorned by two series of tubercles) and separated by a linear suture which is narrower than the interspaces; the last whorl is strongly attenuated, yellow, adorned by three series of tubercles, tubular near the suture and on the left side; small aperture, ovate with a short, ascending, unicarinated and yellow siphon. — Length
4 mm
, diameter
1-5 mm
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Shell cyrtoconoid.
Syntype
3.9 mm
high.Teleoconch of
c.
9.5 whorls.Two spiral cords present of which the first becomes more prominent towards the last whorl. Both cords with tubercles at the intersection with prosocline axial ribs. Posterior sinus well developed and protruding into a short canal. Base with two additional spiral cords of which the first tubercled and the second smooth.Teleoconch whorls white, the last whorl and the base brown. Siphonal canal white. Protoconch missing in the
syntype
.