Monophorus
| Monophorus | |
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda Informal group Ptenoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Triphoroidea |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Monophorus Grillo, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, C., 1758) | |
| Species | |
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Monophorus is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:
- Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001
- Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
- Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
- Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889)
- Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001
- Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985
- Monophorus verdensis Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
Distribution
Species in this genus are found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Monophorus Grillo 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138573 on 10 May 2011
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
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