Trabecula (gastropod)

Trabecula is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies, and the subfamily Chrysallidinae, a large taxon of minute marine gastropods with an intorted protoconch.[2]

Trabecula
Apertural view of the shell of Trabecula laxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Trabecula
Monterosato, 1884 [1]
Type species
Trabecula jeffreysiana
Monterosato, 1884
Synonyms[2]
  • Chrysallida (Trabecula) Monterosato, 1884
  • Salassiella Dall & Bartsch, 1909

Taxonomy

Dall & Bartsch (1904: 10) misinterpreted this genus and described it with “intercostal spaces crossed by equally spaced, raised spiral threads, sculpture reticulated”, despite that Monterosato (1884) wrote that there is no apparent spiral sculpture. This may explain why Dall & Bartsch (1909) described a new genus Salassiella with a type species extremely similar to that of Trabecula

General description

The whorls of the teleoconch are rounded, and longitudinally lamellose. The aperture is semicircular, with an exterior rib. There is no apparent spiral sculpture. The apex is retrorse. The columella lacks a fold or tooth.[3]

Species
Species brought into synonymy
  • Trabecula montforti (Corgan, 1972): synonym of Nesiodostomia montforti Corgan, 1972
  • Trabecula plicata (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Pyrgulina plicata (A. Adams, 1860)
  • Trabecula punctigera (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Linopyrga punctigera (A. Adams, 1860)
  • Trabecula tantilla (A. Adams, 1863): synonym of Linopyrga tantilla (A. Adams, 1863)

References
  1. Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi pp. 152 [month of publication unknown, but later than february (the paper in Naturalista Siciliano, cited p. 57); copy in Smithsonian Institution bears manuscript note "after August,
  2. WoRMS (2010). Trabecula Monterosato, 1884. 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=416081 on 28 August 2012
  3. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 317-318; 1886


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