Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Monoplex macrodon
tritón esbelto, Sleder triton
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Cymatiidae
Genus
Monoplex
Species
macrodon
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cymatium (Monoplex) pileare sensu Dall, 1909, Tritonium macrodon Valenciennes, 1832 (Horton et al., 2021). Syn.: Cymatium macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832), Cymatium pileare subsp. macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832), Triton macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832), Tritonium macrodon Valenciennes, 1832 (GBIF Secretariat, 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- 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.
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- 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 macrodon", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9194. Accessed 5 June 2026.