Monilispira

Monilispira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Monilispira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
Type species
Drillia monilifera Carpenter, 1857
Species
See text

Species

Species within the genus Monilispira include:

• † Monilispira archeri Olsson & Harbison, 1953
• Monilispira bandata (Nowell-Usticke, 1969)
• † Monilispira bigemma (Dall, 1890)
• Monilispira circumcincta Nowell-Usticke, 1969^[2]
• Monilispira lysidia (Duclos, 1850)
• Monilispira monilifera (Carpenter, 1857)

Species brought into synonymy

• Monilispira crassiplicata Kuroda & Oyama, 1971: synonym of Splendrillia crassiplicata (Kuroda & Oyama, 1971)
• Monilispira leucocyma (Dall, 1884): synonym of Pilsbryspira leucocyma (Dall, 1884)
• Monilispira monilis Bartsch & Rehder, 1939: synonym of Pilsbryspira monilis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939)
• Monilispira ochsneri Hertlein & Strong, 1949: synonym of Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949)

References

1. Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
2. Monilispira circumcincta Nowell-Usticke, 1969. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
• P.J. Fallon, Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids (Turridae) of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 2. Genus Crassispira Swainson, 1840 subgenera Monilispira Bartsch and Rehder, 1939 and Dallspira Bartsch, 1950; The Nautilus 125, 2011