Trituba is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.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
General characteristics (Original description in French) The shell is dextral, elongated, and almost cylindrical, with whorls marked by longitudinal riblets and ornamented with two small cords. The spire consists of nineteen whorls, five of which are embryonic. The body whorl, nearly smooth, divides into three elongated tubes. Jousseaume 1884. Monographie des Triforidae. Bulletin de la Société Malacologique de France, 1(3): 217-270, pl. 4
Species Species in the genus Trituba include: Trituba additicia Gofas, 2003 Trituba anelpistos (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981) Trituba antepallaxa (B. A. Marshall, 1977) Trituba anubis M. Fernandes, Garofalo & Pimenta, 2015 Trituba apicina (A. W. B. Powell, 1937) Trituba attenuatispira (A. W. B. Powell, 1937) Trituba azorica Gofas, Freiwald & L. Hoffman, 2023 Trituba barbadensis (Coomans & Faber, 1984) † Trituba bitubulata (Baudon, 1856) Trituba blacki (B.A. Marshall, 1977) † Trituba chevallieri (Cossmann, 1896) Trituba constricta Gofas, 2003 Trituba dexia (Verco, 1909) † Trituba dominici (Gougerot, 1966) Trituba elatissima Gofas, 2003 Trituba epallaxa (Verco, 1909) Trituba fallax Gofas, 2003 † Trituba fenestrata (Cossmann, 1889) Trituba hirta Gofas, 2003 Trituba incredita Gofas, 2003 Trituba lima Gofas, 2003 † Trituba neozelanica (Laws, 1939) Trituba nonnitens (Barnard, 1963) † Trituba obliquecostulata (Kaunhowen, 1898) † Trituba plicata (Deshayes, 1834) Trituba recurvata Gofas, 2003 † Trituba sorgenfreii (Schnetler, 1990) Trituba superstes (Bouchet & Fechter, 1981) Trituba tanseiae (Kosuge, 1967) † Trituba tauroturrita (Sacco, 1895) † Trituba tertia (Lozouet, 1999) † Trituba triforis (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) Trituba tui (B. A. Marshall, 1977) † Trituba umboseriata Darragh, 2017 † Trituba zecollata (Laws, 1941)
References
Kosuge, S. (1967). Description of a new dextral triforiid, Triforis tanseiae n. sp. with some considerations on its allied forms. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. 10: 125-132. Gofas, S. (2003). An endemic radiation of Trituba (Mollusca, Gastropoda) on the North Atlantic seamounts. American Malacological Bulletin. 17(1-2): 45-63
External links 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)