Taxonomy > Cymatiidae > Monoplex
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Monoplex vestitus (Hinds, 1844)
- Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 507
- Henning & Hemmen (1993) Ranellidae & Personidae of the World - p. 70
- 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. 178
- Löser (2024) The genus Monoplex (Gastropoda, Cymatiidae) in the Gulf of California (Mexico) based on beach observations. - p. 12 [as Monoplex keenae (fig. 2a)]
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Statistics
| Frequency | rare
- 6 localities (3.05 %) |
| Sediment | 50 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) |
Size and comments
The literature indicates a maximum length of 118mm; beach finds are much smaller and remain below 70mm. More common in the SW Gulf.
Images
Length 46.6mm.
Length 65.7mm.
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