''Monadenia'' 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 in the subfamily Monadeniinae.
These
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 ...
,
terrestrial molluscs
Terrestrial molluscs or land molluscs (mollusks) are an ecology, ecological group that includes all molluscs that live on land in contrast to Freshwater mollusc, freshwater and Sea snail, marine molluscs. They probably first occurred in the Carbo ...
belong to the
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 ...
class.
Snails in this genus create and use
love darts
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 ...
as part of their mating behavior.
Species
Accepted names within the genus ''Monadenia'' include:
* † ''
Monadenia antecedens''
(Stearns, 1900)
* ''
Monadenia callipeplus''
S.S. Berry, 1940
* ''
Monadenia chaceana''
S.S. Berry, 1940
* ''
Monadenia churchi''
Hanna & A.G. Smith, 1933
* ''
Monadenia circumcarinata''
(Stearns, 1879) -
keeled sideband
* ''
Monadenia cristulata''
S.S. Berry, 1940
* † ''
Monadenia dubiosa''
(Stearns, 1902)
* ''
Monadenia fidelis''
(J. E. Gray, 1834)
* ''
Monadenia infumata''
(Gould, 1855)
* † ''
Monadenia marginicola''
(Conrad, 1871)
* ''
Monadenia mariposa''
A.G. Smith, 1957
* ''
Monadenia marmarotis''
S.S. Berry, 1940
* ''
Monadenia mormonum''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
* ''
Monadenia ochromphalus S. S. Berry, 1937
* ''
Monadenia setosa''
Talmadge, 1952
* ''
Monadenia subcarinata''
(Hemphill, 1892)
* ''
Monadenia troglodytes''
G. D. Hanna & A. G. Smith, 1933
* ''
Monadenia tuolumneana''
S.S. Berry, 1955
* ''
Monadenia yosemitensis''
(H.N. Lowe, 1916)
Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Monadenia hillebrandi''
(Newcomb, 1864): synonym of ''
Monadenia mormonum hillebrandi''
(Newcomb, 1864)
* ''Monadenia rotifer''
S. S. Berry, 1940: synonym of ''Monadenia marmarotis''
S.S. Berry, 1940
* ''Monadenia semialba''
Henderson, 1929: synonym of ''Monadenia fidelis fidelis''
(Gray, 1834)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Monadeniidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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