Monophorus

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Monophorus
Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Suborder: Ptenoglossa
Superfamily: Triphoroidea
Family: Triphoridae
Genus: Monophorus
Grillo, 1877
Type species
Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, C., 1758)
Synonyms
  • Biforina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884
  • Notosinister Finlay, 1926

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

Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:

Synonyms
  • Monophorus fascelina (Suter, 1908): synonym of Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908) (incorrect gender)
Monophorus nigrofuscus shells.

Distribution

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