Monophorus

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)
Species
See text

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

Species

Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:

• Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001
• Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
• Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
• Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889)
• Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001
• Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985
• Monophorus verdensis Fernandes & Rolán, 1988

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

• 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.