Trenchia Knudsen, 1964

Herbert, David G., 2024, The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 923, pp. 1-119 : 65

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.923.2445
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10818394
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scientific name	Trenchia Knudsen, 1964
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Treatment

Genus Trenchia Knudsen, 1964 View in CoL

Type species

Trenchia wolffi Knudsen, 1964 View in CoL (original designation), Recent, Kermadec Trench.

Remarks

Species of Trenchia closely resemble those of Xyloskenea Marshall, 1988 , but the latter differ in having distinct spiral sculpture on the initial part of the protoconch. In Trenchia the protoconch is smooth ( Warén & Bouchet 1993; Hoffman et al. 2020). Although the protoconch of the material discussed below is somewhat eroded, no spiral sculpture is evident and for this reason I refer the new species to Trenchia . This appears to be the first record of the genus from the Indian Ocean.