Monophorus
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| Genus: | Monophorus Grillo, 1877
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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 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
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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
- 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.
External links
- Granata-Grillo, G. (1877). Sul Cirropteron semilunare Sars, e del nuovo sottgenere Monophorus. Bullettino della Societa Malacologia Italiana. 3: 54-60
- ouchet, P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58
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