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Monacha fruticola

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

Monacha fruticola is a species in the family Hygromiidae.

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Quick facts about Monacha fruticola

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 fruticola live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

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

  1. Ukraine

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 fruticola 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 fruticola classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. familyHygromiidae
  5. genusMonacha
  6. SpeciesMonacha fruticola (Krynicki, 1833)

Synonyms Helix fruticola, Monacha fruticola, Paratheba fruticola

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Монашка подкустарничнаяRussian
  • Монашка підкущоваUkrainian
  • улитка-монах кустарниковаяRussian
  • равлик-монах чагарниковийUkrainian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Monacha fruticola

Other species in the same genus Monacha.

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Common questions

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Is Monacha fruticola an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Monacha fruticola as introduced in 1 country: Ukraine, 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 fruticola (Monacha fruticola). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/monacha-fruticola

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{monacha_fruticola_2026,
  title = {Monacha fruticola (Monacha fruticola)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/monacha-fruticola},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}