Monoplex mundus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.
Distribution This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin.
Description The maximum recorded shell length is 38 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. . The species was discovered in 1849 by A. Gould. It was originally classified as Triton mundum.
Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 149 m. Maximum recorded depth is 185 m.
References
Beu A.G. 2010 [August]. Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378: 550 pp, 79 pls
External links
Gould, A. A. (1849). Descriptions of new species of shells, brought home by the U. S. Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 83-85, 89-92, 106-108, 118-121 (May 1849), 140-144 Emerson W.K. (1991) First records for Cymatium mundum (Gould) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with comments on the zoogeography of the tropical Trans-Pacific tonnacean and non-tonnacean prosobranch gastropods with Indo-Pacific faunal affinities in West American waters. The Nautilus, 105(2):62-80