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Monoplex macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 507 [as Cymatium (Septa) pileare]
  • Henning & Hemmen (1993) Ranellidae & Personidae of the World - p. 64
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 95
  • Beu (2010) Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. - p. 162
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 209
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 52 [as Monoplex pilearis]
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 52 [as Monoplex vestitus]
  • Löser (2024) The genus Monoplex (Gastropoda, Cymatiidae) in the Gulf of California (Mexico) based on beach observations. - p. 13

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 16 localities (8.12 %)
Sediment50 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The literature gives a maximum length of 92mm that is nearly reached by beach finds.

Images

Length 45.1mm.

Length 45.1mm.

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