Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Monoplex vestitus
Tritón peludo panameño, Panamanian hairy triton
(C. vestitum) Length: 50 to 80 mm.width: 30 to 40 mm.
(C. vestitum) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Cymatiidae
Genus
Monoplex
Species
vestitus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cymatium vestitum (Hinds, 1844), Triton vestitus Hinds, 1844, Triton vestitus var. senior C. B. Adams, 1852 (Horton et al., 2021); (C. vestitum) AMHN: 110417, 164470, LACM: AHF 317-35, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos, 1993 Acc name.: Monoplex vestitus (Hinds, 1844) fide appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (C. vestitum) Mexico(Manzanillo) to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. (1998) A Field Guide to Sea Stars and other Echinoderms of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 83 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Monoplex vestitus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19960. Accessed 31 October 2026.