Monophorus

Monophorus
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)

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
Monophorus nigrofuscus shells.

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

  1. ↑ 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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