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

Monoplex nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tritonium O. F. Müller, 1776

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

*Cymatium nicobaricum*	(Röding, 1798)	synonym
*Triton chlorostomum*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym
*Triton chlorostomum var. pumilio*	Mörch, 1877	synonym
*Triton pulchellus*	C. B. Adams, 1850	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ミツカドボラ

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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Monoplex nicobaricus (Röding, 1798). 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:476529