''Monodonta viridis'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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in the
family
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Trochidae
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...
, the top snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Monodonta viridis'' Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Description
The shell is almost similar to ''
Monodonta australis'', but is dark green, unicolored or nearly so.
Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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References
* Akihiko Matsukuma; Index to mollusks in Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique, part 23, pls. 391-488 by J. B. P. A. Lamarck; Conchologia ingrata no. 6 (2012)
External links
Encyclopedia of Life
World Register of Marine Species
viridis
Gastropods described in 1816
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