''Monachoides'' 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,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
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 ...
, 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, 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 ...
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''
(Wagner, 1914)
* ''
Monachoides incarnatus''
(Müller, 1774) - the
type species
In 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 species that contains the biological type specime ...
, 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 16th, 2017
External links
''Monachoides''.Uniprot Taxonomy.
Gastropod genera
Hygromiidae
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