Monilea simulans

Monilea simulans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Monilea
Species:	M. simulans
Binomial name
Monilea simulans (E. A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms
Monilia simulans E.A. Smith, 1899 Trochus (Monilea) warnefordi G. & H. Nevill

Monilea simulans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]

Description

This species differs from the type species (Monilea callifera) in having only faint indications of the nodose plications at the upper angle of the whorls. It also differs in color, being paler and less rosy.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Maldives, the Laccadives in the South China Sea and off Japan.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Monilea simulans E. A. Smith, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732134 on 2014-07-15
2. Smith, E.A. (1903). Marine Mollusca. pp. 618 in Gardiner, J.S. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes. Being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge: Vol.2 pp. 473-1079, pls. 26-100.

• Hedley, C. (1916). A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 1 : 3-77
• Yen, T.-C., 1942. A review of the Chinese gastropods in the British Museum. Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 24(5/6):170-290.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp

External links

External identifiers for Monilea simulans
WoRMS	732134

• To World Register of Marine Species