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Monacha 
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 SigmurethraSuperfamily: Helicoidea Family: Hygromiidae Subfamily: Monachainae Genus: Monacha
Fitzinger, 1833[1]Type species Monacha cartusiana
(Müller, 1774)Diversity 80 species[2] 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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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]
subgenus Paratheba
subgenus Metatheba
- Monacha ciscaucasica Hausdorf, 2000[4]
- Monacha georgievi Páll-Gergely, 2010[6]
- Monacha perfrequens (Hesse, 1914)
- Monacha samsunensis (L. Pfeifer, 1868)
- Monacha subcarthusiana (Lindholm, 1913)
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.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
External links
- Monacha at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
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