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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monophorus is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.[1]
| Monophorus | |
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus | |
Scientific 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) | |
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Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:
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Species in this genus are found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.
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