Monilea Swainson 1840 (top snail)
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Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Trochidae
Alternative spelling: Trochus (Monilea)
Parent taxon: Umboniinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Ladd 1966, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Monilea (Monilea) Monilea (Rossiteria) Monilea belcheri Monilea callifera Monilea nucleus Monilea riorapelensis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), Djibouti (1), Fiji (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (3), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Fiji (3), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (1)
Total: 20 collections including 24 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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