Mitromorpha monodi

Mitromorpha monodi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha monodi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. monodi
Binomial name
Mitromorpha monodi
(Knudsen, 1956)
Synonyms[1]

Mitra monodi Knudsen, 1956

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Senegal.

References

  • Knudsen, J. 1956. Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa (Stenoglossa). Atlantide Report No. 4. Scientific results of the Danish Expedition to the coasts of tropical West Africa 1945–46. Copenhagen, pp. 7–110, pis. 1–4.
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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