Trituba Explained

Trituba is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.^[1]

Species

Species in the genus Trituba include:

• Trituba additicia Gofas, 2003
• Trituba anelpistos (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981)
• Trituba barbadensis (Coomans & Faber, 1984)
• † Trituba bitubulata (Baudon, 1856)
• Trituba blacki (B.A. Marshall, 1977)
• Trituba constricta Gofas, 2003
• Trituba dexia (Verco, 1909)
• Trituba elatissima Gofas, 2003
• Trituba epallaxa (Verco, 1909)
• Trituba fallax Gofas, 2003
• Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003
• Trituba incredita Gofas, 2003
• Trituba lima Gofas, 2003
• † Trituba neozelanica (Laws, 1939)
• Trituba recurvata Gofas, 2003
• Trituba superstes (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981)
• † Trituba zecollata (Laws, 1941)

Subgenus

• Subgenus Trituba (Granulotriforis) Kosuge, 1967 represented as Trituba Jousseaume, 1884 (alternate representation)
• Trituba (Granulotriforis) antepallaxa (B. A. Marshall, 1977)
• Trituba (Granulotriforis) nonnitens (Barnard, 1963)
• Trituba (Granulotriforis) tanseiae (Kosuge, 1967)
• Trituba (Granulotriforis) tui (B. A. Marshall, 1977)

References

• Jousseaume 1884. Monographie des Triforidae. Bulletin de la Société Malacologique de France, 1(3): 217-270, pl. 4
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Trituba Jousseaume, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180931 on 2015-02-10