Monachoides

Monachoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.^[2]

Monachoides
Monachoides incarnatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Subfamily:	Hygromiinae
Genus:	Monachoides Gude & Woodward, 1921[1]

Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species

The following species are recognised within the genus Monachoides:

• Monachoides bacescui (Grossu, 1979)
• †Monachoides barotiana Marinescu, 1975
• Monachoides fallax (Wagner, 1914)
• Monachoides incarnatus (Müller, 1774) - the type species, sometimes the adjectival species name is treated as if the genus name had a feminine gender: Monarchoides incarnata
• Monachoides kosovoensis (De Winter & Maassen, 1992)
• Monachoides taraensis (De Winter & Maassen, 1992)
• Monachoides vicinus (Rossmässler, 1842)