Monachoides Explained

Monachoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.^[1]

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, 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.

Notes and References

1. 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