Shell of the Week: The White Triphora
Sagenotriphora candidula Rolán & Lee, 2008 is a Floridian species of the family Triphoridae, a group of microgastropod mollusks known to inhabit sponge colonies. Triphorids are almost always left-handed. The 5-mm (about 0.2 inch) White Triphora is characterized by its pure white color and a multispiral (many-whorled), translucent-brown protoconch (larval shell), with a reticulated sculpture on its first whorl. Other features of shell and radula also distinguish this species f