''Monachoides'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of air-breathing
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, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
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 ...
s in the family
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 ...
, 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 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 stor ...
s 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
''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. ...
''
(Wagner, 1914)
* ''
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. Mon ...
''
(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 ...
, 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, 1992)
* ''
Monachoides vicinus''
(Rossmässler, 1842)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
''Monachoides''.Uniprot Taxonomy.
Gastropod genera
Hygromiidae
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