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Monoplex keenae (Beu, 1970)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 505 [as Cymatium (Monoplex) parthenopeum keenae]
  • Henning & Hemmen (1993) Ranellidae & Personidae of the World - p. 60 [as Cymatium (Monoplex) parthenopeum keenae]
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 94
  • 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. 156
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 52
  • Löser (2024) The genus Monoplex (Gastropoda, Cymatiidae) in the Gulf of California (Mexico) based on beach observations. - p. 12

Statistics

Frequencyrare - 7 localities (3.55 %)
Sediment70 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Up to 180mm in length according to the literature; beach finds may reach 90mm. In places sold by fishermen.

Images

Length 54.4mm.

Length 54.4mm.

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