Monachoides vicinus
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Monachoides vicina.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Monachoides vicinus
| authority = (O. F. Müller, 1774)Müller O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
| synonyms =
Perforatella vicina Rossmässler, 1842
}}
Monachoides vicinus (syn. Perforatella vicina) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
This snail is found in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, UkraineBalashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109. and other countries.
There are isolated occurrences in the Pannonian Plain (Bátorliget, Hungary) and in the Nordfrankischer Jura (Pottenstein).There are several published and unpublished distribution records and there is no evidence that the area of occupancy (AOO), extent of occurrence (EOO), or the number of locations are declining or extremely fluctuating.
Description
File:Monachoides-vicinus 09.jpg
This is a silvicol species with a preference for deciduous and pine forests of higher altitude (over 700 m asl.),Grossu, A.V. 1983. Gastropoda Romaniae 4. Editura Litera, Bucuresti. where it lives on the ground among leaf-litter, or decaying dead wood.
File:Monachoides vicinus dart lateral.jpg image of lateral view of love dart of Monachoides vicinus. The scale bar is 500 μm (0.5 mm).]]
File:Monachoides vicinus dart.jpg of Monachoides vicinus. Cross-section (on the left) and lateral view (on the right)]]
These snails use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Conservation
This species is protected in Hungary and some subpopulations are known to occur within protected areas. Although it inhabits a large area (300,000 km2), due to its special habitat preference, the population is fragmented. The species' range is not satisfactorily explored and there are no data on population trend. However, forest habitats are known to be diminishing in that region and therefore one might suppose that number of subpopulations or the number of mature individuals are declining.Feher, Z. 2013. Monachoides vicinus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Retrieved 20 December 2014
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Category:Gastropods described in 1774
Category:Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller
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