Monacha
Monacha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.Distribution
The distribution of the genus Monacha includes western Europe, Central Europe, Mediterranean, Asia minor and Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Arabia, Iran, Azerbaijan. It is not in Armenia.
The greatest diversity of species is in the Pontic region.Species
Species within the genus Monacha include:
subgenus Monacha
- Monacha cartusiana - type species
- Monacha oecali Hausdorf & Páll-Gergely, 2009
- Monacha albocincta
- Monacha carascaloides
- Monacha carinata
- Monacha claustralis
- Monacha comata
- Monacha compingtae
- Monacha crenophila
- Monacha ? eliae
- Monacha heteromorpha
- Monacha ignorata
- Monacha liebegottae
- Monacha melitensis
- Monacha menkhorsti
- Monacha merssinae
- Monacha nordsiecki
- Monacha obstructa
- Monacha ocellata
- Monacha ovularis
- Monacha pamphylica
- Monacha riedeli
- Monacha saninensis
- Monacha solidior
- Monacha spiroxia spiroxia
- Monacha spiroxia atik
- Monacha subaii
- Monacha syriaca
- Monacha venusta
subgenus Paratheba
- Monacha claussi
- Monacha kuznetsovi
- Monacha roseni
- Monacha ascania
- Monacha badia, 2000
- Monacha bithynica
- Monacha depressior
- Monacha elatior
- Monacha glareosa
- Monacha hemitricha
- Monacha leucozona
- Monacha magna
- Monacha margarita
- Monacha pusilla
- Monacha rothii
- Monacha sedissana
subgenus Metatheba
- Monacha ciscaucasica
- Monacha densecostulata
- Monacha devrekensis
- Monacha galatica
- Monacha gemina
- Monacha georgievi
- Monacha laxa
- Monacha hamsikoeyensis
- Monacha perfrequens
- Monacha pharmacia
- Monacha phazimonitica
- Monacha hamsikoeyensis
- Monacha samsunensis
- Monacha subcarthusiana
- Monacha stipulifera
- Monacha terebrata
subgenus ?
- Monacha cantiana
- Monacha emigrata
The species Ashfordiana granulata is often also grouped under the genus Monacha.
