Zonitoides
Zonitoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Genus: | Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862[1] |
Distribution
The distribution of Zonitoides includes North America, eastern and northern Asia, and Europe.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Zonitoides include:
- Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1817)
- Zonitoides excavatus (Alder, 1830)
- Zonitoides hoffmanni (Martens, 1892)[3]
- Zonitoides jaccetanicus (Bourguignat, 1870)
- Zonitoides multivolvis (Pilsbry, 1926)[3]
- Zonitoides nitidus (Müller, 1774) - type species
- Zonitoides sepultus Ložek, 1964
Anatomy
Species in this genus of snails make and use love darts.
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References
- Lehmann R. 1862. Ueber eine neue Heliceen-Gattung. Malakozoologische Blätter 9: 111-112.
- "Genus summary for Zonitoides". AnimalBase, last modified 22 January 2009, accessed 3 September 2010.
- Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
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