Zonites

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

Zonites
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

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
  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. 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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