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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Monacha |
| Species: | M. cartusiana
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| Monacha cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]
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This is the type species of the genus Monacha.
Distribution
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The native distribution of this species is Atlantic-Mediterranean.[6] It lives in various areas including:
- Great Britain. This species was fully protected in the United Kingdom under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 from 1981 to 1988.[7]
- Ukraine[8]
This species has been accidentally introduced and naturalized in:
- United States - Newcastle County, Delaware[9]
Life cycle
editThe size of the egg is 1.8 mm.[10]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gray, J.E. (1821). "A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure". London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239.
- ^ 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.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds (ed.). "Monacha cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ Protection for wild animals on Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. website accessed 7 August 2009.
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ^ Robinson, D.G. & J. Slapcinsky. 2005. Recent introductions of alien land snails into North America. American Malacological Bulletin 20:89-93.
- ^ 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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