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
Zonites astakidae Riedel, 1985
Zonites caricus (Roth, 1839)
Zonites casius Martens, 1889
Zonites chloroticus (Pfeiffer, 1851)
Zonites embolium Fuchs & Käufel, 1936
Zonites embolium elevatus Riedel & Mylonas, 1997 - extinct[4]
Zonites euboeicus Kobelt, 1878
Zonites festae Pollonera, 1916
Zonites graecus Kobelt, 1876
Zonites humilis Riedel, 1982
Zonites invitus Riedel & Mylonas, 1995
Zonites kobelti Kobelt, 1898
Zonites labiosus Westerlund, 1893
Zonites messenicus Zilch, 1965
Zonites nautarum Riedel & Mylonas, 1995
Zonites nikariae Pfeffer, 1930
Zonites nisyrius Riedel & Mylonas, 1997
Zonites oertzeni Martens, 1889
Zonites osmanicus Riedel, 1987
Zonites parnonensis Riedel, 1985
Zonites pergranulatus Kobelt, 1878
Zonites rhodius Martens, 1889
Zonites santoriniensis Riedel & Norris, 1987 - extinct[4]
Zonites sariae Riedel, 1985
Zonites siphnicus Fuchs & Käufel, 1936 - extinct[4]
Zonites smyrnensis (Roth, 1839)
References
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.
Tryon G. W. (1886) Manual of Conchology Second series: Pulmonata. volume II. Zonitidae.
"Species in genus Zonites". AnimalBase, accessed 22 June 2010.
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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