Zonites

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Zonites
Zonites graecus 01.JPG
Zonites graecus Kobelt, 1876
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Zonitoidea
Family:
Zonitidae
Genus:
Zonites

Zonites is a genus of mostly small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae.

Description[]

The shell of species in this genus is more or less transparent, subdepressed and contains an umbilicus. The aperture is semilunar and usually lacks teeth. The outer lip is thin and sharp.

The animal is elongate and is able to retract completely within its shell. It has a more or less developed caudal mucous pit. The mantle lobes are small and not reflected on to the shell. The genital orifice is somewhat distant from the right tentacle. The jaw is marked by a median rostrum. The lateral teeth of the radula are bicuspidate, while the marginal teeth are sharp and narrowly unicuspidate.[2]

Species[]

Species within the genus Zonites include:[3]

  • Zonites algirus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species
  • Zonites anaphiensis Riedel & Mylonas, 1981
  • Riedel, 1985
  • (Roth, 1839)
  • Martens, 1889
  • (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Zonites embolium Fuchs & Käufel, 1936
    • Zonites embolium elevatus Riedel & Mylonas, 1997 - extinct[4]
  • Kobelt, 1878
  • Pollonera, 1916
  • Kobelt, 1876
  • Riedel, 1982
  • Riedel & Mylonas, 1995
  • Kobelt, 1898
  • Westerlund, 1893
  • Zilch, 1965
  • Riedel & Mylonas, 1995
  • Pfeffer, 1930
  • Riedel & Mylonas, 1997
  • Martens, 1889
  • Riedel, 1987
  • Riedel, 1985
  • Kobelt, 1878
  • Martens, 1889
  • Zonites santoriniensis Riedel & Norris, 1987 - extinct[4]
  • Riedel, 1985
  • Zonites siphnicus Fuchs & Käufel, 1936 - extinct[4]
  • (Roth, 1839)

References[]

  1. ^ Montfort D. de (1810). Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, non cloisonnées. Tome second. pp. [1-3], 1-676. Paris.
  2. ^ Tryon G. W. (1886) Manual of Conchology Second series: Pulmonata. volume II. Zonitidae.
  3. ^ "Species in genus Zonites". AnimalBase, accessed 22 June 2010.
  4. ^ a b c Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
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