North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Monoplex G. Perry, 1810

Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis-Marschlins, 1793)
Specimen from Praia Salema, Algarve (col. Diego Moreno) (actual size 79 mm).

AphiaID

463521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:463521)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Monoplex australasiae G. Perry, 1811 accepted as Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis Marschlins, 1793) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Cymatiidae Iredale, 1913 (1854)

Original name

Monoplex G. Perry, 1810

Synonymised names

Cymatium (Monoplex) G. Perry, 1810 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Dissentoma Pilsbry, 1945 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Eutritonium (Lampusia) Schumacher, 1817 † · unaccepted

Lampusia Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Triton (Lampusia) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted

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Species Monoplex aquatilis (Reeve, 1844)
Species Monoplex comptus (A. Adams, 1855)
Species Monoplex corrugatus (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Monoplex krebsii (Mörch, 1877)
Species Monoplex nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
Species Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis Marschlins, 1793)
Species Monoplex pilearis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Monoplex tranquebaricus (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Monoplex trigonus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Monoplex australasiae G. Perry, 1811 accepted as Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis Marschlins, 1793) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Monoplex martinianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1853) accepted as Monoplex pilearis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Perry G. (1810-1811). Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045115
page(s): sgn. M7 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Monoplex G. Perry, 1810. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=463521 on 2025-12-12

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Monoplex G. Perry, 1810. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=463521 on 2025-12-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-02 13:41:47Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-26 17:15:50Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-07-30 01:20:18Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-01-25 17:14:14Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description Perry G. (1810-1811). Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045115
page(s): sgn. M7 [details]

original description (of Dissentoma Pilsbry, 1945) Pilsbry, H. A. (1945). New Floridian marine mollusks. The Nautilus. 59(2): 59-60, pl. 6, figs. 7-7b, text-fig. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523554
page(s): 59 [details]

original description (of Lampusia Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 76, 250 [details]

basis of record Beu, A. G. (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. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 377-378: 1-550, pls. 1-79. [details] Available for editors