Monacha
Monacha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
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Two live individuals of Monacha cartusiana on a human hand | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Subfamily: | Monachainae |
Genus: | Monacha |
Type species | |
Helix cartusiana (Müller, 1774) | |
Diversity[2] | |
80 species |
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 (Nagele, 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 (Schutt, 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 (Pall-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)
- Monacha emigrata (Westerlund, 1894)
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.
- Hausdorf B. (2000). "The genus Monacha in the Western Caucasus (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae)". Journal of Natural History 34(8): 1575-1594. PDF Archived 2009-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. 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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