“ Triphora ” Blainville, 1828

Synonymy. Tristoma Menke, 1830

Triphoris Deshayes, 1832 (orthographic variant), non Triforis Deshayes, 1834 (based on Marshall 1983).

Type species. Triphora gemmatum Blainville, 1828; monotypy. Recent, Mauritius.

Remarks. See Marshall (1983) for considerations about the taxonomic use of “ Triphora ” s. l. as a “catch-all” taxon. The genus has up to now 171 species worldwide (Bouchet 2014), 30 in the western Atlantic (Rosenberg 2009).