Monophorus

Monophorus is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]

Monophorus
Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
Informal group Ptenoglossa
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Genus:
Monophorus

Grillo, 1877
Type species
Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, C., 1758)
Synonyms
  • Biforina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884
  • Notosinister Finlay, 1926

Species

Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:

  • Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001
  • Monophorus amicitiae Romani, 2015
  • Monophorus angasi (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1865)
  • Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
  • Monophorus atratus (Kosuge, 1962)
  • Monophorus australicus B. A. Marshall, 1983
  • Monophorus cinereus (Hedley, 1902)
  • Monophorus constrictus (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus diminutus (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus episcopalis (Hervier, 1898)
  • Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
  • Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
  • Monophorus graphius (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus hopensis (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus iwaotakii (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus lucidulus (Hervier, 1898)
  • Monophorus micans (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus monachus (Hervier, 1898)
  • Monophorus monocelha M. Fernandes & Araya, 2019
  • Monophorus nigrofuscus (A. Adams, 1854)
  • Monophorus nitidus (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889)
  • Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001
  • Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Monophorus puniceus (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus quadrimaculatus (Hervier, 1898)
  • Monophorus rufulus (R. B. Watson, 1886)
  • Monophorus stiparus (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus strictus (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus subaurus (Laseron, 1958)
  • Monophorus tessellatus (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus testaceus (Kosuge, 1963)
  • Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985
  • Monophorus tubularis (Laseron, 1958)
  • 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
  • Marshall B.A. (1983) A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum supplement 2: 1-119.
  • 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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