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Monoplex wiegmanni (Anton, 1838)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 505
  • Henning & Hemmen (1993) Ranellidae & Personidae of the World - p. 108
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 95
  • Beu (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. - p. 179
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 52
  • Löser (2024) The genus Monoplex (Gastropoda, Cymatiidae) in the Gulf of California (Mexico) based on beach observations. - p. 15

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 17 localities (8.63 %)
Sediment8 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Up to 145mm in length according to the literature; beach material remains below 100mm. In places sold by fishermen.

Images

Length 84.6mm.

Length 84.6mm.

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