Zonitoides nitidopsis
Appearance
Zonitoides nitidopsis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
Family: | Gastrodontidae |
Genus: | Zonitoides |
Species: | Z. nitidopsis
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Binomial name | |
Zonitoides nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851)
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Zonitoides nitidopsis is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae. [1]
Description
[edit]The altitude of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 7 mm.
(Original text in Latin) The thin, amber shell is perforated, convex-depressed, glabrous, brown, ribbed and marked with small striae. It contains four barely convex whorls. The last whorl is concave.The aperture is lunate-circular. The peristome is acute and thin. [2]
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonitoides nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1447649 on 2023-12-09
- ^ Morelet, A. (1851). Testacea novissima insulae Cubanae et Americae Centralis, Pars II. Paris: Baillière. 30 pp