Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Tonnoidea > Family Cymatiidae > Genus Monoplex

Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis Marschlins, 1793)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Monoplex*	G. Perry, 1810	accepted genus name
*Cymatium (Monoplex)*	Perry, 1810	synonym
*Dissentoma*	Pilsbry, 1945	synonym
*Eutritonium (Lampusia)*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Lampusia*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Triton (Lampusia)*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Tritonium (Lampusia)*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym

Species group names

*Murex costatus*	Born, 1778	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Triton parthenopaeum*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Cymatium (Septa) parthenopeum*	(Salis Marschlins, 1793)	synonym
*Cymatium echo*	Kuroda & Habe, 1958	synonym; nom. nud.
*Cymatium parthenopeum*	(Salis Marschlins, 1793)	synonym
*Cymatium parthenopeum parthenopeum*	(Salis Marschlins, 1793)	synonym
*Dissentoma prima*	Pilsbry, 1945	synonym
*Monoplex australasiae*	Perry, 1811	synonym
*Murex costulatus*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Murex parthenopeus*	Salis Marschlins, 1793	synonym
*Ranella pyramidata*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Triton (Simpulum) acclivis*	F. W. Hutton, 1873	synonym
*Triton abbreviatum*	Bellardi, 1873	synonym
*Triton acclivis*	F. W. Hutton, 1873	synonym
*Triton americanum*	A. d'Orbigny, 1853	synonym
*Triton brasilianum*	A. Gould, 1849	synonym
*Triton parthenopaeum f. antupum*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Triton parthenopaeum f. sbilpum*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Triton parthenopaeum var. milona*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton parthenopaeum var. peribranta*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton succinctum*	Lamarck, 1816	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カコボラ

Literature

basis of record	Beu, A. G. (2010). 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: 1-550.
additional source	Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 37-206.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Monoplex parthenopeus (Salis Marschlins, 1793). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:476531