Monachoides

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

Monachoides
Monachoides incarnatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Hygromiidae
Genus:
Monachoides

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
  1. Gude G. K. & Woodward B. B. (1921). "Some emendations to their recent paper "On Helicella, Férussac."". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)8(48): 624-626. page 625.


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