Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Monoplex mundus
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Cymatiidae
Genus
Monoplex
Species
mundus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cymatium mundum (Gould, 1849), Triton mundum Gould, 1849, Tritonium mauritianum Tapparone Canefri, 1876 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Monoplex mundus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19510. Accessed 1 November 2026.