Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Triphoroidea > Family Triphoridae > Subfamily Triphorinae > Genus Cosmotriphora

Cosmotriphora melanura (C. B. Adams, 1850)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cosmotriphora*	Olsson & Harbison, 1953	accepted genus name
*Triphora (Cosmotriphora)*	Olsson & Harbison, 1953	synonym

Species group names

*Triforis grimaldii*	Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906	synonym
*Triphora grimaldii*	Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58.
additional source	Fernandes M.R. & Pimenta A.D. (2020). Unraveling one of the 'Big Five': update of the taxonomy of Triphoridae (Gastropoda, Triphoroidea) from Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy. 665: 1-170.
additional source	Fernandes, M.R., Pimenta, A.D. & Leal, J.H. (2013). Taxonomic review of Triphorinae (Gastropoda: Triphoridae) from the Vitoria-Trindade Seamount Chain, southeastern Brazil. The Nautilus. 127(1): 1-18.
additional source	Fernandes, M. R. (2024). Triphoridae (Gastropoda) from Martinique sampled by the MADIBENTHOS expedition, with notes on shallow-water species from Guadeloupe. Zoosystema. 46(18): 457-503.
additional source	Fernandes F. & Rolán E. (1988). A familia Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) no arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Publicações Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia. 11: 17-32.
additional source	Fernandes M.R. & Pimenta A.D. (2019). Basic anatomy of species of Triphoridae (Gastropoda, Triphoroidea) from Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy. 517: 1-60.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cosmotriphora melanura (C. B. Adams, 1850). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141714