Monoplex aquatilis

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Monoplex aquatilis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Monoplex
Species:
M. aquatilis
Binomial name
Monoplex aquatilis
(Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cymatium aquatile (Reeve, 1844)
  • Cymatium cruzana Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1959
  • Cymatium pileare var. cruzanaNowell-Usticke, 1959
  • Lampusia aquatilis (Reeve, 1844)
  • Triton aquatile(Reeve, 1844)
  • Triton aquatile occidentale Mörch, 1877
  • Triton aquatilisReeve, 1844

Monoplex aquatilis, common name the cosmopolitan hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. [1]

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Distribution

This species has a wide distribution across the Atlantic Ocean, European waters, Cape Verde, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.[ citation needed ]

Description

The shell size varies between 35 mm and 120 mm.[ citation needed ]

The maximum recorded shell length is 95 mm. [2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. [2] Maximum recorded depth is 18 m. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Monoplex aquatilis (Reeve, 1844) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLOS One 5(1): e8776. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

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