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Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Bouchetriphora (Genus)
> pallida (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Mesophora albomicra Laseron, 1958
=Notosinister candefactum Kosuge, 1963
=Notosinister candefactus Kosuge, 1963
=Notosinister glaciala Laseron, 1954
=Triphora candefacta (Kosuge, 1963)
=Triphora infelix Webster, 1906
=Triphora pallida Pease, 1871
=Triphoris angasi var. leuca (Verco, 1909)
=Triphoris pallidus Pease, 1871
Images: Bouchetriphora pallida (Pease, 1871)
Below low tide among kelp holdfasts, Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 8mm. © rights reserved
Below low tide, living on sponge and among kelp holdfasts. Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 7-8mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Triphora infelix Webster, 1906, collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, NZ (M.001674). 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Bouchetriphora (Genus)
> pallida (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Mesophora albomicra Laseron, 1958
=Notosinister candefactum Kosuge, 1963
=Notosinister candefactus Kosuge, 1963
=Notosinister glaciala Laseron, 1954
=Triphora candefacta (Kosuge, 1963)
=Triphora infelix Webster, 1906
=Triphora pallida Pease, 1871
=Triphoris angasi var. leuca (Verco, 1909)
=Triphoris pallidus Pease, 1871
Details: Bouchetriphora pallida (Pease, 1871)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 2mm
Distribution:
Indo-West Pacific. Raoul Island, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and North Island as far south as Waverley, from 0-310m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Sinistral
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.222)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1983 A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum (p.61)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.255)

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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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