Monachoides | |
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Monachoides incarnatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Subfamily: | Hygromiinae |
Genus: | Monachoides Gude & Woodward, 1921[1] |
Monachoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.[2]
Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.