Triptychus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]
| Triptychus | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Triptychus niveus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Triptychus Mörch, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| Triptychus nivea Mörch, 1875 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pyramidella (Triptychus) Mörch, 1875 | |
Description
editThe subulate shell is spirally paucilirate. The aperture is lirate within, subsinuated in front. The columella is triplicate.[3]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Triptychus include:[2]
- Triptychus incantatus (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1939)
- Triptychus litosbathron Pimenta, Santos & Absalao, 2008
- Triptychus niveus (Mørch, 1875)
- Triptychus pacificus Corgan, 1973
- Synonyms
- Triptychus olssoni (Bartsch, 1926): synonym of Triptychus incantatus (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1939)
- † Triptychus pliocena Bartsch, 1955: synonym of Peristichia pliocena (Bartsch, 1955) (original combination)
References
edit- ^ Morch, Mal. Blatt., xxii, p. 158, 1875
- ^ a b c WoRMS (2010). Triptychus Mörch, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416104 on 2011-10-26
- ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 295
External links
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- ITIS
- World Register of Marine Species
- Mörch, O. A. L. (1875). Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum. Malakozoologische Blätter. 22: 142-184