en Monachoides

Monachoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.^[2]

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)

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b 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

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

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