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Monilea simulans

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Monilea simulans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species:
M. simulans
Binomial name
Monilea simulans
(E. A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Monilia simulans E.A. Smith, 1899
  • Trochus (Monilea) warnefordi G. & H. Nevill

Monilea simulans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

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This species differs from the type species (Monilea callifera) in having only faint indications of the nodose plications at the upper angle of the whorls. It also differs in color, being paler and less rosy.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Maldives, the Laccadives in the South China Sea and off Japan.

References

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  • Hedley, C. (1916). A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 1 : 3-77
  • Yen, T.-C., 1942. A review of the Chinese gastropods in the British Museum. Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 24(5/6):170-290.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
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