Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Tonnoidea Subfamily Cymatiinae Scientific name Monoplex aquatilis Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Ranellidae Genus Monoplex Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Cymatium pileare, Monoplex, Goldmouth triton, Gutturnium muricinum, Cymatium | ||
Monoplex aquatilis, common name the cosmopolitan hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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Distribution
This species has a wide distribution across the Atlantic Ocean, European waters, Cape Verde, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.
Description
The shell size varies between 35 mm and 120 mm.
The maximum recorded shell length is 95 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 18 m.
References
Monoplex aquatilis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA