Genus Monoplex Perry, 1811

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Genus Monoplex Perry, 1811

Monoplex Perry, G. 1811. Arcana, or The museum of natural history: containing the most recent discovered objects: embellished with coloured plates, and corresponding descriptions: with extracts relating to animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of nature. London : James Stratford pl. XLIX–LXXXIV.
Type species:
Monoplex australasiae Perry, 1811 by subsequent designation.
Lampusia Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [76, 250].
Type species:
Murex pilearis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation.
Cabestanimorpha Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [307] [not available].
Type species:
Triton exaratus Reeve, 1844 by original designation.
Dissentoma Pilsbry, H.A. 1945. New Floridian marine mollusks. Nautilus 59: 59-60 [59] [recognized by Pilsbry [1949, The Nautilus, 62(4): [142] to be the larval shell of Cymatium martinianum (d'Orbigny, 1847)].
Type species:
Dissentoma prima Pilsbry, 1945 by original designation (Murex parthenopeus Salis Marschlins, 1793).
Cymatriton Clench, W.J. & Turner, R.D. 1957. The family Cymatiidae in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia: Monographs of the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic 3(36): 189-244 [210].
Type species:
Tritonium nicobaricum Röding, 1798 by original designation.

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New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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Circumtropical

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)