Galapagos Species Database

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Triphora adamsi Bartsch, 1907

Gastropoda, Gastropodo

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda

Superfamily
Triphoroidea

Family
Triphoridae

Genus
Triphora

Species
adamsi

Taxon category: Accepted

USNM: 195382 (Holotype and Paratypes, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: several lots (ex.: 72-196, Ahf 187-34, AHF-MS-453).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Nicaragua and Ecuador(Galapagos islands).

References

  • Bartsch, P. (1907) The West American Mollusks of the Genus Triphoris (Galapagos Islands). Smithsonian Inst. Natl. Mus. Proc. 33: 249-262.
  • Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Triphora adamsi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10273. Accessed 31 October 2026.