Monophorus
Encyclopedia
Monophorus is a genus
of minute sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Triphoridae
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and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores
, Canary Islands
and Cape Verde
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Triphoridae
Triphoridae
Triphoridae are a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa in the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks.-Shell description:...
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Species
Species within the genus Monophorus are as follows:- Monophorus alboranensis Rolán & Peñas, 2001
- Monophorus ateralbus Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
- Monophorus erythrosoma (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978)
- Monophorus olivaceus (Dall, 1889)
- Monophorus pantherinus Rolán & Peñas, 2001
- Monophorus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Monophorus thiriotae Bouchet, 1985
- Monophorus verdensis Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
Distribution
Species in this genus are found in the Mediterranean SeaMediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
and in the Atlantic Ocean around the Azores
Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
, Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
and Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
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