''Monophorus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of minute
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 ...
s with left-handed shell-coiling,
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
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s or
micromollusk
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s in the
family
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Triphoridae
Triphoridae is a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa, within the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks and almost all are left-handed in shell-c ...
.
[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]
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 caracca''
(Dall, 1927)
* ''
Monophorus cinereus''
(Hedley, 1902)
* ''
Monophorus constrictus''
(Laseron, 1958)
* † ''
Monophorus cristulatus''
Sacco, 1895
* ''
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 insertus''
(Marwick, 1928)
* † ''
Monophorus invectus''
Harzhauser, 2014
* ''
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
''Monophorus per versus'' is a species of small sea snail with left-handed shell-coiling, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Triphoridae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). ''Monophorus perversus'' (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed thr ...
''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Monophorus puniceus''
(Kosuge, 1963)
* ''
Monophorus quadrimaculatus''
(Hervier, 1898)
* † ''
Monophorus renauleauensis''
Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
* ''
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 verecundus''
M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2020
;Synonyms:
* ''Monophorus fascelina''
(Suter, 1908): synonym of ''Monophorus fascelinus''
(Suter, 1908) (incorrect gender)
Distribution
Species in this genus are found in the
Mediterranean Sea
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and in the
Atlantic Ocean
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around the
Azores
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, the
Canary Islands
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and
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
.
References
* 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). . 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: 54-60Bouchet, P. (1985). ''Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda)''. Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103592 Bucquoy E., Dautzenberg P. & Dollfus G. (1882-1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls]
Marshall B.A. (1983) A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum supplement 2: 1-119
Triphoridae
Gastropod genera
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