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Monoplex tranquebaricus

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Monoplex tranquebaricus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Monoplex
Species:
M. tranquebaricus
Binomial name
Monoplex tranquebaricus
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymatium (Linatella) tranquebaricum (Lamarck, 1823)
  • Cymatium (Monoplex) tranquebaricum (Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816)
  • Cymatium tranquebaricum (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Eutriton (Simpulum) problematicum Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906
  • Triton chemnitzii Gray, 1839
  • Triton tranqueribacus Lamarck, 1816
  • Tritonium adansonii Dunker, 1853

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

Description

The shell size varies between 21 mm and 80 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa, Gabon, Angola and in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.

References

  1. ^ a b Monoplex tranquebaricus (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
  • "Cymatium (Monoplex) tranquebaricum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
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