Triphoris albidus A. Adams, 1854

Albano, Paolo G., Bakker, Piet A. J. & Sabelli, Bruno, 2019, Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London, Zoosystematics and Evolution 95 (1), pp. 161-308 : 161

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scientific name	Triphoris albidus A. Adams, 1854
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Triphoris albidus A. Adams, 1854 View in CoL

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Triphoris albidus Adams 1854: 278, not illustrated.

Type locality.

Honduras.

Type material.

Syntypes: NHMUK 196563 and 196564: 1 specimen each, Honduras (coll. H. Cuming) .

Original description.

T. testâ subulato-pyramidali, albidâ, nitidâ; anfractibus planulatis, subimbricatis, granosoclathratis, granis oblongis, serie granorum inferiore prominulâ, anfractu ultimo basi fulvo; canali brevi, subrecurvo.

Hab. Honduras (Dyson). Mus. Cuming.

A solid, white, shining, pyramidal species, with oblong granules disposed in three series on each whorl.

Translation of the Latin text.

Whitish and clean shell with a pyramidal-subulate shell; flat-sided whorls, subimbricated, clathrated with oblong granules whose inferior series is slightly prominent, base of the last whorl reddish; short anterior siphonal canal slightly curved.

Diagnosis.

Syntypes are 9.6 and 8.1 mm high. Shell conical, with rather flat sides. Teleoconch of ca 12 whorls. Three spiral cords are present, the second weaker at the beginning but visible since the early teleoconch. Such cords are large, flat, adorned by elongated and coalescent granules, which become more distinct on the peristome. Base with three additional granulated cords. Apex not present in the type specimens. Colour whitish with brown base.

Remarks.

The syntypes lack the apex, but Rolán and Fernández-Garcés (1995) illustrated a morphologically similar specimen with a multispiral protoconch, sculptured by two spiral keels and axial riblets.