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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Vetigastropoda
Ordo: Lepetellida
Superfamilia: Fissurelloidea

Familia: Fissurellidae
Subfamilia: Diodorinae
Genus: Monodilepas
Species: M. monilifera

Monodilepas monilifera is a species of small sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]


This species is known only from New Zealand. Shell size 13-35 mm.[2]


Subspecies are:

Monodilepas monilifera carnleyensis Powell, 1955
Monodilepas monilifera cookiana Dell, 1953
Monodilepas monilifera monilifera (Hutton, 1873)

References

Rosenberg, G. (2012). Monodilepas monilifera (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598179 on 2012-08-31

"Monodilepas monilifera monilifera". www.gastropods.com. Retrieved 2020-04-03.

Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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