Monoplex wiegmanni ( Anton, 1838 )

Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), Journal of Natural History 49 (29), pp. 1731-1761 : 1737

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336551
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scientific name	Monoplex wiegmanni ( Anton, 1838 )
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Monoplex wiegmanni ( Anton, 1838)

Description

Keen (1971), Beu (2010).

Distribution

Native to America, Baja California to Southern Peru ( Beu 2010). In Chile this species has been recorded only in Antofagasta Bay (23°28 ʹ S, 70°30 ʹ W), Región de Antofagasta ( Castilla et al. 2005).

Possible mechanism of introduction/Status

Associated with ENSO events/unestablished ( Castilla et al. 2005).

Remarks

Carnivore ( Beu 2010). UA, SA.

References

Anton HE. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herbert Eduard Anton Befinden. H. E. Anton, Halle, xvi + 110 pp.

Beu AG. 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. Bull Am Paleontol. 377 - 378: 1 - 550.

Castilla JC, Uribe M, Bahamonde N, Clarke M, Desqueyroux-Faundez R, Kong I, Moyano H, Rozbaczylo N, Santelices B, Valdovinos C, Zavala P. 2005. Down under the southeastern Pacific: marine non-indigenous species in Chile. Biol Invasions. 7: 213 - 232.

Keen AM. 1971. Sea shells of tropical west America: marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford: Stanford University Press.