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Genus of gastropods
Zonites is a genus of mostly small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae.[2]
The genus Zonites, which includes 26 extant species, is distributed in the northeastern Mediterranean area and exhibits significant diversity and endemism.
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.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Zonites include:[4]
- Zonites algirus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species
- Zonites anaphiensis Riedel & Mylonas, 1981
- Zonites astakidae Riedel, 1985
- † Zonites beckerplateni Schütt, 1985
- Zonites beydaglariensis A. Riedel, 1982
- † Zonites boisteli Depéret, 1895
- Zonites caricus (Roth, 1839)
- Zonites casius Martens, 1889
- Zonites chloroticus (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- Zonites embolium Fuchs & Käufel, 1936
- Zonites embolium elevatus Riedel & Mylonas, 1997 - extinct[5]
- Zonites euboeicus Kobelt, 1878
- Zonites festai Pollonera, 1916
- Zonites goldfussi Westerlund, 1890
- Zonites graecus Kobelt, 1876
- Zonites humilis Riedel, 1982
- Zonites invitus Riedel & Mylonas, 1995
- Zonites kobelti Boettger, 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[5]
- Zonites sariae Riedel, 1985
- † Zonites siphnicus Fuchs & Käufel, 1936 - extinct[5]
- Zonites smyrnensis (Roth, 1839)
In the course of time many species have been included in the genus Zonites that have become taxa inquirenda or synonyms that now belong to different other genera.
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.
- ^ Zonites, with the same type species
- ^ Tryon G. W. (1886) Manual of Conchology Second series: Pulmonata. volume II. Zonitidae.
- ^ "Species in genus Zonites". AnimalBase, accessed 22 June 2010.
- ^ a b c 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.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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