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Monoplex

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Description

Monoplex is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoplex, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4613642	https://www.gbif.org/species/4613642
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10146	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10146

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : Monoplex

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ranellidae : Monoplex

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Ranellidae	Gray 1854
genus	Monoplex	Perry 1810

Scientific Name

Monoplex Perry, 1810

Name Published In

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.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Monoplex	subgenus	belongs to Cymatium	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Monoplex	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Monoplex	subgenus	belongs to Cymatium	stated with evidence	Beu, 2005
Monoplex	genus	belongs to Ranellidae	stated with evidence	Beu, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

20 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ranellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ranellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Todd. 2001. Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoplex

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cassidaria dubia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lampusia affinis species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Monoplex amictus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex aquatilis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex cecilianus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Monoplex cercadicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	23.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Monoplex chlorostomoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Monoplex comptus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex corrugatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex durbanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex exaratus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Monoplex gatunicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Monoplex gemmatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex gurabonicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Monoplex infelix ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Monoplex intermedius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex jackwinorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Monoplex keenae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex klenei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex krebsii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		40	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex lignarius species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex longispira ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Monoplex macrodon species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Monoplex martinianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex mundus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Monoplex nicobaricus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex norai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex panamensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	11.6 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Monoplex parthenopeus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		26	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex penniketi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex pileare species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex pilearis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex ritteri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex thersites species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monoplex tranquebaricus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex trigonus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex turtoni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Monoplex vespaceus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex vestitus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex wiegmanni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monoplex williamsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Tritonium (Lampusia) dubium ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cymatriton Clench & Turner, 1957	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : *Cymatriton*
Lampusia Schumacher, 1817	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : *Lampusia*
Dissentoma Pilsbry, 1945	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : *Dissentoma*
Lamposia Douvillé, 1933	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : *Lamposia*
Cabestanimorpha Iredale, 1936	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cymatiidae : *Cabestanimorpha*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1811	Monoplex Perry
1817	Tritonium (Lampusia) Schumacher p. 350
1877	Triton (Lampusia) Mörch p. 30
1921	Tritonium (Lampusia) Vredenburg p. 289
1936	Cabestanimorpha Iredale p. 307
1947	Cymatium (Lampusia) Gardner p. 533
1957	Cymatium (Cymatriton) Clench and Turner p. 210
1960	Cymatium (Lampusia) MacNeil p. 59

Year	Name and Author
1977	Cymatium (Lampusia) Ladd p. 33
1977	Cymatium (Cymatriton) Ladd p. 34
2001	Cymatium (Monoplex) Todd
2002	Lampusia Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Monoplex Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Cymatium (Monoplex) Beu p. 78
2008	Cymatium (Monoplex) Landau et al. p. 455
2010	Monoplex Beu

References

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Vredenburg E. (1921) Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma, Records of the Geological Survey of India 51, 224-302

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Beu A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia, Scripta Geologica 130, 1-186

Landau B., Vermeij G., et al (2008) Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257, 445-461

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

Beu A.G. 2010 [August]. 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: 550 pp, 79 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

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. - via World Register of Marine Species

GBIF/Academy of Natural Sciences: MAL - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Conchology, pl - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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