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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)]

Statistics

Frequencyrare - 6 localities (3.05 %)
Sediment50 (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 46.6mm.

Length 65.7mm.

Length 65.7mm.

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