Monadenia fidelis
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| Monadenia fidelis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Bradybaenidae |
| Genus: | Monadenia |
| Species: | M. fidelis |
| Binomial name | |
| Monadenia fidelis (J. E. Gray, 1834) |
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Monadenia fidelis, common name the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Monadeniidae.
This species of snail creates and uses love darts.
[edit] Distribution
This land snail is endemic to the Pacific Coast of North America from southern Alaska to northern California. At 22 to 36 mm wide, it is the largest Washington land snail species.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Monadenia fidelis". Evergreen Biota. The Evergreen State College. http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/ants/TESCBiota/mollusc/key/mon_fid/mon_fid.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
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