Monoplex aquatilis

Monoplex aquatilis, common name the cosmopolitan hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]

Monoplex aquatilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Monoplex
Species:
M. aquatilis
Binomial name
Monoplex aquatilis
(Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymatium aquatile (Reeve, 1844)
  • Cymatium cruzana Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1959
  • Cymatium pileare var. cruzana Nowell-Usticke, 1959
  • Lampusia aquatilis (Reeve, 1844)
  • Triton aquatile (Reeve, 1844)
  • Triton aquatile occidentale Mörch, 1877
  • Triton aquatilis Reeve, 1844

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution across the Atlantic Ocean, European waters, Cape Verde, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.

Description

The shell size varies between 35 mm and 120 mm.

The maximum recorded shell length is 95 mm.[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 18 m.[2]

References
  1. Monoplex aquatilis (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  2. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

Further reading
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • "Cymatium (Monoplex) aquatile". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
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