Monoplex macrodon

Monoplex macrodon is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]

Monoplex macrodon
A shell of Monoplex macrodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Monoplex
Species:
M. macrodon
Binomial name
Monoplex macrodon
(Valenciennes, 1832)
Synonyms[1]

Cymatium (Monoplex) pileare Dall, 1909
Cymatium pileare (Dall 1909)
Triton macrodon Valenciennes, 1832

Distribution

This species is present in Baja California, Mexico – Colombia, in Galápagos, Clipperton Island and Cocos Island.[2]

Description

Shells of Monoplex macrodon can reach a size of 35–90 millimetres (1.4–3.5 in).[2]

Bibliography
  • The Recent Molluscan Marine Fauna of the Islas Galápagos, p 32
  • Ranellidae & Personidae of the World, Pl. 14/3
  • Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 262, p 122
  • Valenciennes A. (1832). Coquilles univalves marines de l'Amérique équinoxiale, recueillies pendant le voyage de MM. A. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland. Pp. 262-339, pl. 57. In: A. von Humboldt & A. Bonpland (eds), Observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée
  • Beu A.G. 2010 [August]. Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378: 550 pp, 79 pls.
gollark: CB = from cave, no parents shown.
gollark: Ah, at last a free slot! Time to get another useless cave thing!
gollark: It's a hatchling, so that dark lumina is totally worth it.
gollark: I meant *CB gold*. Silly me.
gollark: It's CB and a hatchling!

References
  1. Monoplex macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  2. Gastropods



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