Monacha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
The distribution of the genus Monacha includes western Europe, Central Europe, Mediterranean, Asia minor and Turkey (more than 50 species of Monacha), Georgia, Russia, Arabia, Iran, Azerbaijan (1 species). It is not in Armenia.
The greatest diversity of species is in the Pontic region.
Species
Species within the genus Monacha include:
subgenus Monacha
Monacha cartusiana (Müller, 1774) - type species
Monacha oecali Hausdorf & Páll-Gergely, 2009
Monacha albocincta (P. HESSE, 1912)
Monacha carascaloides (BOURGUIGNAT, 1855)
Monacha carinata HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha claustralis (MENKE, 1828)
Monacha comata HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha compingtae (PALLARY, 1929)
Monacha crenophila (L. PFEIFFER, 1857)
Monacha ? eliae (NÄGELE, 1906)
Monacha heteromorpha HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha ignorata (O. BOETTGER, 1905)
Monacha liebegottae HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha melitensis (P. HESSE, 1915)
Monacha menkhorsti HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha merssinae (MOUSSON, 1874)
Monacha nordsiecki HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha obstructa (L. PFEIFFER, 1842)
Monacha ocellata (ROTH, 1839)
Monacha ovularis (BOURGUIGNAT, 1855)
Monacha pamphylica HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha riedeli HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha saninensis (PALLARY, 1939)
Monacha solidior (MOUSSON, 1863)
Monacha spiroxia spiroxia (BOURGUIGNAT, 1868)
Monacha spiroxia atik SCHÜTT, 2001
Monacha subaii HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha syriaca (EHRENBERG, 1831)
Monacha venusta L. PINTER, 1968
subgenus Paratheba
Monacha claussi HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha kuznetsovi HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha roseni (HESSE, 1914)
Monacha ascania HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha badia HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha bithynica HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha depressior HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha elatior HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha glareosa HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha hemitricha (P. HESSE, 1914)
Monacha leucozona HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha magna HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha margarita HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha pusilla HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha rothii (L. PFEIFFER, 1841)
Monacha sedissana HAUSDORF, 2000
subgenus Metatheba
Monacha ciscaucasica HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha densecostulata (RETOWSKI, 1886)
Monacha devrekensis HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha galatica HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha gemina HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha georgievi PÁLL-GERGELY, 2010
Monacha laxa (HUDEC, 1973)
Monacha hamsikoeyensis HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha perfrequens (HESSE, 1914)
Monacha pharmacia HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha phazimonitica HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha hamsikoeyensis (HUDEC, 1973)
Monacha samsunensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1868)
Monacha subcarthusiana (Lindholm, 1913)
Monacha stipulifera HAUSDORF, 2000
Monacha terebrata HAUSDORF, 2000
subgenus ?
Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)
The species Ashfordiana granulata (Alder, 1830) is often also grouped under the genus Monacha.
