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title: "Pacific Sideband"
description: "Monadenia fidelis — Outros animais. Monadenia fidelis, commonly known as the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pacific-sideband
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Sideband

> Monadenia fidelis — Outros animais. Monadenia fidelis, commonly known as the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail.

- Scientific name: *Monadenia fidelis*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 14037
- Wikidata: [Q3074496](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3074496)
- iNaturalist taxon: [62803](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62803)

## Names

- en: Pacific Sideband

## Countries with the most observations

US (9232), CA (4222)

## Summary

Monadenia fidelis, commonly known as the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail. M. fidelis is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Monadeniidae.
These snails display a great deal of morphological variation: the shell of the Pacific sideband typically has a chestnut brown base, with bands of yellow, dark brown, and red. The body of the animal is rosy or purplish brown, with gray or black throughout. This species of snail reproduces using love darts. At 22 to 36 mm wide, it is the largest land snail species in the state of Washington.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadenia_fidelis

## Photo

![Pacific Sideband](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-sideband/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28475372

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-sideband?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).