| Monilea | |
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| Monilea callifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Monilea Swainson, 1840 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Trochus calliferusLamarck, 1822 | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Monilea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [2]
The solid shell has a depressed-conical shape. The outer surface is sharply, spirally striate and closely obliquely striated . The shell has a more or less developed callous ridge or funicle revolving on the inner side of the whorl within the umbilicus, and terminating at the columella, the edge of which is reflexed over it. The sinuous columella terminates in a point or denticle at its base. The outer lip is lirate within. [3] [4]
The habitat of most species is in the Indian Ocean, but some occur in the Pacific Ocean.
Species within the genus Monilea include:
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following names in current use [7]
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Trochus is a genus of medium-sized to large, top-shaped sea snails with an operculum and a pearly inside to their shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Gibbula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Clanculus is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Turbo is a genus of large sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Cantharidus, common name the kelp shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Austrocochlea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails, also known as top shells.
Leptothyra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colloniidae.
Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
Priotrochus obscurus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Euchelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae.
Monodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Prothalotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Clypeomorus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.
Rissoina is a large genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoinidae.
Trigonostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Priotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Priotrochus goudoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Thalotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Ziziphinus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.