Monophorus genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae .[1]
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Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:
Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001 Monophorus amicitiae Romani, 2015 Monophorus angasi (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1865) Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994 Monophorus atratus (Kosuge, 1962) Monophorus australicus B. A. Marshall, 1983 Monophorus caracca (Dall, 1927) Monophorus cinereus (Hedley, 1902) Monophorus constrictus (Laseron, 1958) † Monophorus cristulatus Sacco, 1895
Monophorus diminutus (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus episcopalis (Hervier, 1898) Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978) Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908) Monophorus graphius (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus hopensis (Laseron, 1958) † Monophorus insertus (Marwick, 1928)
† Monophorus invectus Harzhauser, 2014
Monophorus iwaotakii (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus lucidulus (Hervier, 1898) Monophorus micans (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus monachus (Hervier, 1898) Monophorus monocelha M. Fernandes & Araya, 2019 Monophorus nigrofuscus (A. Adams, 1854) Monophorus nitidus (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889) Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001 Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758) Monophorus puniceus (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus quadrimaculatus (Hervier, 1898) † Monophorus renauleauensis Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
Monophorus rufulus (R. B. Watson, 1886) Monophorus stiparus (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus strictus (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus subaurus (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus tessellatus (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus testaceus (Kosuge, 1963) Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985 Monophorus tubularis (Laseron, 1958) Monophorus verdensis Fernandes & Rolán, 1988 Monophorus verecundus M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2020
Synonyms Monophorus fascelina (Suter, 1908) : synonym of Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908) (incorrect gender)Monophorus nigrofuscus
Species in this genus are found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores , the Canary Islands and Cape Verde .
Marshall B.A. (1983) A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum supplement 2: 1-119.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca . American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4 . XII, 195 pp
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification . Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
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