Zonitoides arboreus

Taxobox
name = "Zonitoides arboreus"

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image_caption = "Zonitoides arboreus" on orchid plants
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status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Zonitidae
genus = "Zonitoides"
species = "Z. arboreus"
binomial = "Zonitoides arboreus"
binomial_authority =

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

Snails in this species create and use love darts.

Distribution and biotope

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 6 September 2007.]
* Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Moravia since 2006 [Dvořák L. & Kupka L. (2007) The first outdoor find of an American snail "Zonitoides arboreus" (Say, 1816) from the Czech Republic. – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 6: 1–2. Online serial at 9-Jan-2007.]

*As a pest in greenhouses in various countries

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