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:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
Informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:
Triphoroidea
Family:
Triphoridae
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.

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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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