Zonitidae

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Zonitidae
Temporal range: Paleocene or Cretaceous – Recent [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Zonitoidea
Mörch, 1864
Family: Zonitidae
Mörch, 1864 [2]
Genera

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Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Zonitoidea.

Contents

Zonitidae is the only family in the superfamily Zonitoidea. The family's type genus is Zonites , established by Pierre Denys de Montfort in 1810. This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the Zonitidae encompasses the western Palearctic. [3]

Shell description

The spiral, heliciform shells of these snails are flattened in shape with a very low spire. The shell is perforate or umbilicate. The lip of the aperture is simple, lacking thickened margin. These shells are more or less transparent as if made of glass, hence the popular name "glass snails". The shells are colorless or of an amber to brownish color. [4]

Biology

Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 and also lies between 31 and 35, but other values are also possible (according to the values in this table). [5]

Ecology

These snails live in damp places under stones and similar objects. The true glass snails are usually nocturnal.

Genera

Genera within the family Zonitidae include:

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families in the limacoid clade: [3]

  limacoid clade  

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<i>Zonites</i> Genus of gastropods

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milacidae</span> Family of gastropods

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gastrodontidae</span> Family of gastropods

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dyakiidae</span> Family of gastropods

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Limacoidei</span> Group of molluscs

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Zonites beydaglariensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites euboeicus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

<i>Zonites graecus</i> Species of gastropod

Zonites graecus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zonites kobelti</span> Species of gastropod

Zonites kobelti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites labiosus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites oertzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

<i>Zonites humilis</i> Species of gastropod

Zonites humilis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites invitus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites nisyrius is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites osmanicus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites parnonensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites sariae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

<i>Zonites festai</i> Species of gastropod

Zonites festai is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

Zonites goldfussi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.

References

  1. ↑ "Family summary for Zonitidae". AnimalBase, last change 19-09-2006, accessed 4 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Mörch, 1864. Fortegnelse over de i Danmark forekommende Land- of Ferskvandbløddyr. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjöbenhavn, 17–22 (from 1863): 265–367. zonitidae on the page 274.
  3. 1 2 Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379–390. doi : 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. ↑ George Washington Tryon 1886. Manual of Conchology, volume 2, Zonitidae.
  5. ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs . CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN   0-85199-318-4. 1–146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  6. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Allaegopis A. Riedel, 1979". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  7. ↑ Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
  8. ↑ "Standard Report". ITIS. Interagency Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn, Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J.D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland: 526 pp.
  10. ↑ "Standard Report". ITIS. nteragency Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 March 2016.

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