Monoplex aquatilis

Monoplex aquatilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Ranellidae
Subfamily:	Cymatiinae
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. cruzana Nowell-Usticke, 1959 Lampusia aquatilis (Reeve, 1844) Triton aquatile (Reeve, 1844) Triton aquatile occidentale Mörch, 1877 Triton aquatilis Reeve, 1844

Monoplex aquatilis, common name the cosmopolitan hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.^[1]

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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Monoplex aquatilis (Reeve, 1844). WoRMS (2010). Monoplex aquatilis (Reeve, 1844). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=476516 on 7 November 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b c} 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.

Further reading

• Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

External links

• Gastropods.com : Cymatium (Monoplex) aquatile; accessed : 7 November 2010