Monacha
| Monacha | |
|---|---|
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| Two live individuals of Monacha cartusiana on a human hand | |
| 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 |
| Subfamily: | Monachainae |
| Genus: | Monacha Fitzinger, 1833[1] |
| Type species | |
| Monacha cartusiana (Müller, 1774) | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 80 species | |
Monacha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Monacha includes western Europe, Central Europe, Mediterranean, Asia minor and Turkey (more than 50 species of Monacha),[3] Georgia, Russia, Arabia, Iran, Azerbaijan (1 species).[4] It is not in Armenia.[4]
The greatest diversity of species is in the Pontic region.[4]
Species
Species within the genus Monacha include:[4]
subgenus Monacha
- Monacha cartusiana (Müller, 1774) - type species
- Monacha oecali Hausdorf & Páll-Gergely, 2009[5]
- Monacha albocincta (P. HESSE, 1912)
- Monacha carascaloides (BOURGUIGNAT, 1855)
- Monacha carinata HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha claustralis (MENKE, 1828)
- Monacha comata HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha compingtae (PALLARY, 1929)
- Monacha crenophila (L. PFEIFFER, 1857)
- Monacha ? eliae (NÄGELE, 1906)
- Monacha heteromorpha HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha ignorata (O. BOETTGER, 1905)
- Monacha liebegottae HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha melitensis (P. HESSE, 1915)
- Monacha menkhorsti HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha merssinae (MOUSSON, 1874)
- Monacha nordsiecki HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha obstructa (L. PFEIFFER, 1842)
- Monacha ocellata (ROTH, 1839)
- Monacha ovularis (BOURGUIGNAT, 1855)
- Monacha pamphylica HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha riedeli HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha saninensis (PALLARY, 1939)
- Monacha solidior (MOUSSON, 1863)
- Monacha spiroxia spiroxia (BOURGUIGNAT, 1868)
- Monacha spiroxia atik SCHÜTT, 2001
- Monacha subaii HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha syriaca (EHRENBERG, 1831)
- Monacha venusta L. PINTER, 1968
subgenus Paratheba
- Monacha claussi HAUSDORF, 2000[4]
- Monacha kuznetsovi HAUSDORF, 2000[4]
- Monacha roseni (HESSE, 1914)
- Monacha ascania HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha badia HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha bithynica HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha depressior HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha elatior HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha glareosa HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha hemitricha (P. HESSE, 1914)
- Monacha leucozona HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha magna HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha margarita HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha pusilla HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha rothii (L. PFEIFFER, 1841)
- Monacha sedissana HAUSDORF, 2000
subgenus Metatheba
- Monacha ciscaucasica HAUSDORF, 2000[4]
- Monacha densecostulata (RETOWSKI, 1886)
- Monacha devrekensis HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha galatica HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha gemina HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha georgievi PÁLL-GERGELY, 2010[6]
- Monacha laxa (HUDEC, 1973)
- Monacha hamsikoeyensis HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha perfrequens (HESSE, 1914)
- Monacha pharmacia HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha phazimonitica HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha hamsikoeyensis (HUDEC, 1973)
- Monacha samsunensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1868)
- Monacha subcarthusiana (Lindholm, 1913)
- Monacha stipulifera HAUSDORF, 2000
- Monacha terebrata HAUSDORF, 2000
subgenus ?
- Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)
The species Ashfordiana granulata (Alder, 1830) is often also grouped under the genus Monacha.
References
- ↑ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien.
- ↑ "Species in genus Monacha". AnimalBase, accessed 29 December 2010.
- ↑ Hausdorf B. (2000). "The genus Monacha in Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygromiidae)". Arch. Molluskenk. 128: 61-151.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hausdorf B. (2000). "The genus Monacha in the Western Caucasus (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae)". Journal of Natural History 34(8): 1575-1594. PDF. doi:10.1080/00222930050117495.
- ↑ Hausdorf & Páll-Gergely B. (2009). "Monacha oecali new species from southern Turkey (Gastropoda:Hygromiidae) ". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 15-18. abstract.
- ↑ Páll-Gergely B. (2010). "New and little known land snails from Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zoology in the Middle East 50: 89-94. Heidelberg. abstract.
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