Monilea is a genus of sea snails in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Monilea
Monilea callifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Swainson, 1840[1]
Type species
Trochus calliferus
Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[2]
  • Monilea (Minolia) Adams, 1860
  • Monilea (Monilea) Swainson, 1840
  • Monilia (Incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Talopena Iredale, 1918
  • Talopia Gray, 1842
  • Trochus (Monilea) Swainson, 1840

Description

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The solid shell has a depressed-conical shape. The outer surface is sharply, spirally striate and closely obliquely striate. The shell has a more or less developed callous ridge or funicle revolving on the inner side of the whorl within the umbilicus, and terminating at the columella, the edge of which is reflexed over it. The sinuous columella terminates in a point or denticle at its base. The outer lip is lirate within.[3][4]

Distribution

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The habitat of most species is in the Indian Ocean, but some occur in the Pacific Ocean.

Species

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Species within the genus Monilea include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following names in current use[7]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Swainson, Shells and shell-fish, p. 352
  2. ^ a b Monilea Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 July 2011.
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Structural and systematic conchology: an introduction to the study of the Mollusca, p.12; 1882
  4. ^ H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  5. ^ Monilea cocoa Okutani, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  6. ^ Monilea pantanellii (Caramagna, 1888). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  7. ^ OBIS : Monilea
  8. ^ Monilea goudoti (P. Fisher, 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  9. ^ Monilea nucleus (Philippi, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  10. ^ Monilea obscura (Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
Bibliography
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 9 : 261-297, pl. 30-31.
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962). A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum. 11
  • Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506