Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Monoplex macrodon (Valenciennes, 1832)

tritón esbelto, Sleder triton

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • 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.