Triphora (Mastonia) lamyi Selli, 1974

Albano, Paolo G., Franco, Davide Di, Azzarone, Michele, J., Piet A., Bakker & Sabelli, Bruno, 2023, Review of the types of Indo-Pacific Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Zoosystema 45 (2), pp. 13-106 : 104

Triphora (Mastonia) lamyi Selli, 1974 ( Fig. 72 )

Triphora (Mastonia) lamyi Selli, 1974: 332 , plate XIX, figs 10-12.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntypes. Egypt • MNHN-IM-2000-486; 2 specimens; Gulf of Suez.

REMARKS. — Selli (1974) cited this new name in his treatment of Mastonia maenades Jousseaume, 1898 . He recognized that his specimens could not be separated from those illustrated by Lamy (1938) with this name, highlighting that Jousseaume did not illustrate them and that Lamy himself had doubts on his own identifications. He then stated that “if ” the holotype was lost or did not correspond with Lamy’s figure, then he would have named his specimens T. (Mastonia) lamyi . Consequently, at the time of his publication, Selli was not yet using this name as valid for a taxon and this name is thus unavailable according to art. 11.5 of ICZN (1999). In any case, a comparison of the specimens of T. lamyi with those of M. moenades did not enable us to recognize any significant difference.

Figures

FIG. 72. — Triphora lamyi Selli, 1973, Gulf of Suez, Egypt, MNHN-IM-2000-486: front (A), side (B), back (C), peristome (D, E), microsculpture (F). Scale bars: A-C, 1 mm; D, E, 0.5 mm; F, 0.4 mm.