Monoplex tranquebaricus

Monoplex tranquebaricus, common name: the West African hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.^[1]

Monoplex tranquebaricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Monoplex
Species:	M. tranquebaricus
Binomial name
Monoplex tranquebaricus (Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]
Cymatium (Linatella) tranquebaricum (Lamarck, 1823) Cymatium (Monoplex) tranquebaricum (Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816) Cymatium tranquebaricum (Lamarck, 1816) Eutriton (Simpulum) problematicum Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906 Triton chemnitzii Gray, 1839 Triton tranqueribacus Lamarck, 1816 Tritonium adansonii Dunker, 1853

Description

The shell size varies between 21 mm and 80 mm.

Shell of Monoplex tranquebaricus (syntype at MNHN, Paris).

Monoplex tranquebaricus (Lamarck, 1816) 23mm Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa, Gabon, Angola and in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.