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Monachoides

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Hygromiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Monachoides httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons33

Similar
  
Monachoides incarnatus, Monachoides vicinus, Hygromiidae, Euomphalia, Trochulus

Monachoides vicinus traveling to home


Monachoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Contents

Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species

Species within the genus Monachoides include:

  • Monachoides bacescui (Grossu, 1979)
  • Monachoides fallax (Wagner, 1914)
  • Monachoides incarnatus (Müller, 1774) - the type species, sometimes the adjectival species name is treated as if the genus name had a feminine gender: Monarchoides incarnata
  • Monachoides kosovensis (De Winter & Maassen, 1992)
  • Monachoides taraensis (De Winter & Maassen, 1992)
  • Monachoides vicinus (Rossmässler, 1842)

    • References

    Monachoides Wikipedia
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