Monacha cantiana
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| Shell of Monacha cantiana (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
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| Binomial name | |
| Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)
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Monacha cantiana, common name the "Kentish snail" or "Kentish garden snail", is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
This species is known to occur in European countries and islands including:[1]
- Great Britain, England
- France
- Italy
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Bohemia since 2009[2]
Africa:
- Egypt[3]
Life cycle
The size of the egg is 1.8 mm.[4]
References
- ↑ Species summary for Monacha cantiana. AnimalBase, last modified 25-01-2009 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 17 April 2009.
- ↑ Hlaváč J. Č. & Peltanová A. (2010). "First occurrence of the Kentish Snail Monacha cantiana (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hygromiidae) in the Czech Republic". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 9: 11–15. PDF
- ↑ Commonwealth of Australia. (April 2002) "Citrus Imports from the Arab Republic of Egypt. A Review Under Existing Import Conditions for Citrus from Israel" . Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia. Caption: Gastropods, page 12 and Appendix 2.
- ↑ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. In: Barker G. M. (ed.) (2001). The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3075232 entry
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