Monadenia fidelis

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Monadenia setosa

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Suborder: Eupulmonata
Infraorder: Stylommatophora
Family: Bradybaenidae
Genus: Monadenia
Species: M. fidelis
Binomial name
Monadenia fidelis
(J. E. Gray, 1834)

Monadenia fidelis, common name the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This land snail is endemic to the Pacific Coast of North America from southern Alaska to northern California. At 22 to 36 mm wide, it is the largest Washington land snail species.[1]

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  1. ^ Monadenia fidelis. Evergreen Biota. The Evergreen State College. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.

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