Monadenia fidelis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Xanthonychidae |
| Genus: | Monadenia |
| Species: | M. fidelis
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| 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.
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 land snail species in the state of Washington.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Monadenia fidelis". Evergreen Biota. The Evergreen State College. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
External links[]
Media related to Monadenia fidelis at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Monadenia
- Gastropods described in 1834
- Endemic fauna of the Pacific Northwest
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Helicoidea stubs