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Monachoides
''Monachoides'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monachoides Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996512 on 2021-08-12 Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. Species The following species are recognised within the genus ''Monachoides'': * ''Monachoides bacescui'' (Grossu, 1979) * †''Monachoides barotiana'' Marinescu, 1975 * ''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 kosovoensis'' (De Winter & Maassen, 1992) * ''Monachoides taraensis'' (De Winter & Maassen, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monachoides Taraensis
''Monachoides'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monachoides Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996512 on 2021-08-12 Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. Species The following species are recognised within the genus ''Monachoides'': * '' Monachoides bacescui'' (Grossu, 1979) * †'' Monachoides barotiana'' Marinescu, 1975 * ''Monachoides fallax'' (Wagner, 1914) * ''Monachoides incarnatus'' (Müller, 1774) - the type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monachoides Vicinus
''Monachoides vicinus'' (syn. ''Perforatella vicina'') is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. Distribution This snail is found in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, UkraineBalashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109. and other countries. There are isolated occurrences in the Pannonian Plain (Bátorliget, Hungary) and in the Nordfrankischer Jura (Pottenstein).There are several published and unpublished distribution records and there is no evidence that the area of occupancy (AOO), extent of occurrence (EOO), or the number of locations are declining or extremely fluctuating. Description This is a silvicol species with a preference for deciduous and pine forests of higher altitude (over 700 m asl.),Grossu, A.V. 1983. Gastropoda Romaniae 4. Editura Litera, Bucuresti. wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monachoides Incarnatus
''Monachoides incarnatus'' (syn. ''Perforatella incarnata'') is a species of air-breathing land snail in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monachoides incarnatus (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003431 on 2021-08-12 ;Subspecies: * ''Monachoides incarnatus amatus'' (Stabile, 1859) * ''Monachoides incarnatus incarnatus'' (O. F. Müller, 1774) * ''Monachoides incarnatus welebitanus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1848) Distribution This snail species is widespread in Europe, and most abundant in Central Europe. It can be found in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine,Balashov, I. & N. Gural-Sverlova. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41(1): 91-109. and many other countries. Biology This species of snail creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Dart
A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcium carbonate, calcareous or chitinous Dart (missile), dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship display, courtship, before actual mating takes place. Darts are quite large compared to the size of the animal: in the case of the semi-slug genus ''Parmarion'', the length of a dart can be up to one fifth that of the semi-slug's foot. The process of using love darts in snails is a form of sexual selection. Prior to copulation (zoology), copulation, each of the two snails (or slugs) attempts to "shoot" one (or more) darts into the other snail (or slug). There is no organ to receive the dart; this action is more analogous to stabbing, or to being shot with an arrow or flechette. The dart does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monachoides Kosovoensis
''Monachoides kosovoensis'' is a species of air‑breathing land snail in the family Hygromiidae. It is known only from a high‑elevation locality in eastern Kosovo. Taxonomy ''Monachoides kosovoensis'' was described by Anton J. de Winter and W.J.M. Maassen in 1992 from specimens collected on the eastern slope of in Kosovo. The authors provisionally placed it in the genus ''Monachoides'' Gude & Woodward, 1921, although they noted that the presence of a small second dart‑sac in the genitalia is unusual for that genus and may warrant future reassessment of its generic assignment. Description The shell of ''M. kosovoensis'' is moderately elevated, reaching up to about 13 mm in maximum diameter and 8.9 mm in height, with 5.3–6 whorls. It is pale brown, becoming lighter towards the sutures, and bears a lighter band around the periphery. Both the upper and lower surfaces have a fine granulose sculpture—numerous tiny bead‑like protuberances that merge into fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shells (those without shells are known as slugs). However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water. Land snails are a Polyphyly, polyphyletic group comprising at least ten independent evolutionary transitions to terrestrial life (the last common ancestor of all gastropods was marine). The majority of land snails are pulmonates that have a lung and breathe air. Most of the non-pulmonate land snails belong to lineages in the Caenogastropoda, and tend to have a gill and an operculum (gastropod), operculum. The largest clade of non-pulmonate land snails is the Cyclophoroidea, with more than 7,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.Helicellidae Ihering, 1909 Anatomy Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their courtship and mating behavior. In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: ''Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142. Taxonomy The family Hygromiidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * subfamily Hygromiinae Tryon, 1866 ** tribe Hygromiini Tryon, 1866 - synonym: Cernuellini Schileyko, 1991 * subfamily Leptaxinae C.R. Boettger, 1909 ** tribe Leptaxini C.R. Boettger, 1909 * subfamily Metafruti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude
Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude (1858 in Amsterdam – 8 November 1924)Bernard Barham Woodward, Woodward B. B. (1925). " GERARD PIERRE LAURENT KALSHOVEN GUDE, F.Z.S., ETC. 1858–1924". ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London'' 16(5): 205-206. was a malacologist from the United Kingdom. He joined the Conchological Society of Great Britain in 1890. He was elected as a fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1884. Bibliography He published malacological works since 1893. Among his works belongs two volumes of ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''. * Gude G. K. (1896)''Armature of helicoid landshells'' Science-Gossip ''Science-Gossip'' 29(23): 88-92, 126-128, 154-156, 178-181, 204-207, 244-246, 274-276, 300-302, 10-11, 36-37, 70-71, 102-103, 138-139, 170-171, 231-232, 263-264, 284-285, 15-17, 74-76, 114-115, 133-134, 170-172, 239-240, 332-333, 15-17, 75-77, 147-149, 174-177. - description of ''Plectopylis'' - type genus of Plectopylid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The number of additional fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000, and the proportion of undescribed species is very high. Many taxa remain poorly studied. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms. They are highly diverse, not just in size and anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and habitat, as numerous groups are freshwater and even terrestrial species. The phylum is typically divided into 7 or 8 taxonomic classes, of which two are entirely extinct. Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates—and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known extant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
