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Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003
180941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:180941)
accepted
Species
marine
Gofas, S. (2003). An endemic radiation of <i>Trituba</i> (Mollusca, Gastropoda) on the North Atlantic seamounts. <em>American Malacological Bulletin.</em> 17(1-2): 45-63.
page(s): 58-61 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 58-61 [details] Available for editors
Note Atlantis seamount (34°05.1'N - 30°13.6'W,...
Distribution Atlantis seamount, rare in 280-340 m; endemic.
Distribution Atlantis seamount, rare in 280-340 m; endemic. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180941 on 2025-05-13
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180941 on 2025-05-13
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Gofas, S. (2003). An endemic radiation of <i>Trituba</i> (Mollusca, Gastropoda) on the North Atlantic seamounts. <em>American Malacological Bulletin.</em> 17(1-2): 45-63.
page(s): 58-61 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
page(s): 58-61 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Biology The type of larval development is not known from direct evidence, but is inferred to be intracapsular from similarity of the larval whorls with those of Cerithiella (see Bouchet and Warén, 1993). There is a multispiral protoconch, but no clear separation protoconch 1/protoconch 2 nor protoconch 2/teleoconch. [details]Diagnosis Shell up to 7.2 x 1.8 mm, turriculate, solid, white, with 14-16 whorls. Protoconch ca. 2-3 whorls, the nucleus moderately protruding; protoconch whorls very convex, sculptured with very strong, sharp, slightly oblique ribs.
Teleoconch whorls sculptured with strong and sharp subsutural and suprasutural knobs, arranged so as to form two spiral rows and loosely defined, oblique axial ribs; both series of knobs starting simultaneously on the first teleoconch whorl, the suprasutural knobs bordered adapically by a definite spiral line. Body whorl not narrowing; its abapical surface smooth and circled by a faint keel on which the axial sculpture abuts.
Aperture with a hardly flaring peristome. Siphonal canal short, slightly narrowing towards its opening, inside with columellar and labial lamellae moderately close together. Anal canal very short, pointing laterally.
This species differs from all others on the North Atlantic seamounts by its short, very strongly sculptured protoconch, and rough sculpture of the teleoconch. [details]
Distribution Atlantis seamount, rare in 280-340 m; endemic. [details]
Type locality Atlantis seamount (34°05.1'N - 30°13.6'W, 280 m) [details]
Type locality Atlantis seamount, 34°05.1'N - 30°13.6'W, 280 m. [details]
