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Monacha claustralis

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

Monacha claustralis is a species in the family Hygromiidae.

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Quick facts about Monacha claustralis

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Monacha claustralis live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Monacha claustralis as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Poland

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Monacha claustralis endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Monacha claustralis classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. familyHygromiidae
  5. genusMonacha
  6. SpeciesMonacha claustralis (Rossmässler, 1834)

Synonyms Helix claustralis, Helix subobstructa, Monacha claustralis, Monacha dissimulans

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Monacha claustralis

Other species in the same genus Monacha.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Monacha claustralis an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Monacha claustralis as introduced in 1 country: Poland, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Monacha claustralis (Monacha claustralis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/monacha-claustralis

MLA

“Monacha claustralis (Monacha claustralis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/monacha-claustralis.

BibTeX
@misc{monacha_claustralis_2026,
  title = {Monacha claustralis (Monacha claustralis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/monacha-claustralis},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}