''Monadenia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of air-breathing land snails in the subfamily Monadeniinae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monadenia Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995491 on 2021-02-25 These pulmonate,

terrestrial molluscs Terrestrial molluscs or land molluscs (mollusks) are an ecological group that includes all molluscs that live on land in contrast to freshwater and marine molluscs. They probably first occurred in the Carboniferous, arising from freshwater on ...

belong to the gastropod 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, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These ...

as part of their mating behavior.

Species

Species 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 tuolumneana'' S.S. Berry, 1955 * '' Monadenia yosemitensis'' (H.N. Lowe, 1916) ; Species brought into synonymy: * ''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) * '' Monadenia setosa''Talmadge, 1952 - Trinity bristle snail: synonym of ''Monadenia infumata setosa'' Talmadge, 1952 * ''Monadenia troglodytes'' Hanna & A.G. Smith, 1933 - shasta sideband: synonym of ''Monadenia troglodytes troglodytes'' Hanna & A.G. Smith, 1933

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

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