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Monacha cartusiana

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Monacha cartusiana
Two live individuals of Monacha cartusiana on a human hand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Hygromiidae
Genus: Monacha
Species:
M. cartusiana
Binomial name
Monacha cartusiana
Synonyms
  • Helix (Fruticicola) cartusiana O. F. Müller, 1774[2] (unaccepted combination)
  • Helix (Zenobia) bimarginata Gray, 1821[3] (junior synonym)
  • Helix cartusiana Müller, 1774
  • Helix cartusiana var. depressa Caziot, 1909[4] (invalid; preoccupied)
  • Monacha (Monacha) cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774)· accepted, alternate representation

Monacha cartusiana is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial eupulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.[5]

This is the type species of the genus Monacha.

Distribution

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European distribution

The native distribution of this species is Atlantic-Mediterranean.[6] It lives in various areas including:

This species has been accidentally introduced and naturalized in:

  • United States - Newcastle County, Delaware[9]

Life cycle

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The size of the egg is 1.8 mm.[10]

References

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Monacha cartusiana
  1. ^ Neubert, E. (2011). "Monacha cartusiana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. IUCN: e.T157222A5056149. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T157222A5056149.en.
  2. ^ a b Müller, O.F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Havniae and Lipsiae: Heineck and Faber.
  3. ^ Gray, J.E. (1821). "A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure". London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239.
  4. ^ Caziot, E. (1909). "Description d'espèces nouvelles de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du département des Alpes-Maritimes". Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. 34: 87–95, 99–104.
  5. ^ MolluscaBase eds (ed.). "Monacha cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  6. ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  7. ^ Protection for wild animals on Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. website accessed 7 August 2009.
  8. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  9. ^ Robinson, D.G. & J. Slapcinsky. 2005. Recent introductions of alien land snails into North America. American Malacological Bulletin 20:89-93.
  10. ^ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
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