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.
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| Shell of Monacha cantiana (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Monacha |
| Species: | M. cantiana
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| Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)
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Distribution
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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:
Life cycle
editThe size of the egg is 1.8 mm.[4]
References
edit- ^ 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" Archived 2009-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. 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
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Media related to Monacha cantiana at Wikimedia Commons
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