Zonitoides nitidus

Taxobox
name = "Zonitoides nitidus"

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image_caption = "Zonitoides nitidus"
image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Gastrodontidae
genus = "Zonitoides"
species = "Z. nitidus"
binomial = "Zonitoides nitidus"
binomial_authority = (Müller, 1774)

"Zonitoides nitidus" is species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.

Description

The height of the shell is 3.5 mm, and the width is 6 mm.

Distribution and biotope

Distribution: Europe, North America.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 4 March 2007.]
* the Czech Republic - least concern (LC) [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.]
* the Netherlands [http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/landmollusken/wetenschappelijk/zonitoides-nitidus/]
* Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast [http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/55.shtml]
* Slovakia
* ...

Biotope: wetlands.

References

External links

* http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id2808