{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Montfortista panhi 01.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Montfortista panhi'' <small>(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)</small> | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Montfortista | authority = Iredale, 1929<ref name="Iredale 1929">{{cite journal |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52430219 |last=Iredale |first=Tom |authorlink=Tom_Iredale |title=Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |volume=9 |issue=3 |date=1929-06-29 |access-date=2024-10-24 |page=269}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = *''Siphonella'' <small>Issel, 1869</small> | type_species = ''Montfortia excentrica'' | type_species_authority = Iredale, 1929 }}

'''''Montfortista''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Montfortista'' Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585824 on 2012-12-31</ref><ref>McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.</ref>

==Species== Species within the genus ''Montfortista'' include:<ref name="WoRMS" /> *''Montfortista excentrica'' <small>(Iredale, 1929)</small> *''Montfortista kirana'' <small>(Habe, 1963)</small> *''Montfortista oldhamiana'' <small>((G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)</small> *''Montfortista panhi'' <small>(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43995 Issel, A. (1869). Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche. Biblioteca Malacologica, Pisa. xi + 387 pp., pls 1-5]

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Category:Fissurellidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Tom Iredale

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