Monophorus

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Monophorus

Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Clade:  | Hypsogastropoda
Suborder:  | 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

Monophorus is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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 (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)

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.

## 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.

## External links

* Granata-Grillo, G. (1877). Sul Cirropteron semilunare Sars, e del nuovo sottgenere Monophorus. Bullettino della Societa Malacologia Italiana. 3: 54-60
* Bouchet, P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58
* Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
* 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

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