Monophorus

Monophorus is a genus of minute sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae.^[1]

Monophorus
Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus
Scientific classification
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)
Synonyms
Biforina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 Notosinister Finlay, 1926

Species

Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:

• Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001
• Monophorus amicitiae Romani, 2015
• Monophorus angasi (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1865)
• Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
• Monophorus atratus (Kosuge, 1962)
• Monophorus australicus B. A. Marshall, 1983
• Monophorus caracca (Dall, 1927)
• Monophorus cinereus (Hedley, 1902)
• Monophorus constrictus (Laseron, 1958)
• † Monophorus cristulatus Sacco, 1895
• Monophorus diminutus (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus episcopalis (Hervier, 1898)
• Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
• Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
• Monophorus graphius (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus hopensis (Laseron, 1958)
• † Monophorus insertus (Marwick, 1928)
• † Monophorus invectus Harzhauser, 2014
• Monophorus iwaotakii (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus lucidulus (Hervier, 1898)
• Monophorus micans (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus monachus (Hervier, 1898)
• Monophorus monocelha M. Fernandes & Araya, 2019
• Monophorus nigrofuscus (A. Adams, 1854)
• Monophorus nitidus (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889)
• Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001
• Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Monophorus puniceus (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus quadrimaculatus (Hervier, 1898)
• † Monophorus renauleauensis Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
• Monophorus rufulus (R. B. Watson, 1886)
• Monophorus stiparus (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus strictus (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus subaurus (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus tessellatus (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus testaceus (Kosuge, 1963)
• Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985
• Monophorus tubularis (Laseron, 1958)
• Monophorus verdensis Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
• Monophorus verecundus M. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2020

Synonyms

• Monophorus fascelina (Suter, 1908): synonym of Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908) (incorrect gender)

Monophorus nigrofuscus shells.

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.