Monacha
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| Monacha | |
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| Two live individuals of Monacha cartusiana on a human hand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Monacha Fitzinger, 1833[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix cartusiana O. F. Müller, 1774 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Monacha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Trochulininae Lindholm, 1927 of the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.[2]
