Monacha cantiana

Monacha cantiana, common name the "Kentish snail" or "Kentish garden snail", is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Monacha cantiana
Shell of Monacha cantiana (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Monacha
Species:	M. cantiana
Binomial name
Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)

Distribution

Distribution of Monacha cantiana in Europe

This species is known to occur in European countries and islands including:^[1]

• Great Britain, England
• France
• Italy
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Germany
• Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Bohemia since 2009^[2]

Africa:

• Egypt^[3]

Life cycle

The size of the egg is 1.8 mm.^[4]