Monilea simulans

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Monilea simulans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species:
M. simulans
Binomial name
Monilea simulans
(E. A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Monilia simulansE.A. Smith, 1899
  • Trochus (Monilea) warnefordiG. & H. Nevill

Monilea simulans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]

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Description

This species differs from the type species ( Monilea callifera ) in having only faint indications of the nodose plications at the upper angle of the whorls. It also differs in color, being paler and less rosy. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Maldives, the Laccadives in the South China Sea and off Japan.

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