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Zonitoides nitidus is species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.
Zonitoides nitidus is the type species of genus Zonitoides.
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Description
The height of the shell is 3.5 mm, and the width is 6 mm.
Habitat
This species occurs in wetlands.
Distribution
This snail is found in Europe and North America.
- Czech Republic - least concern (LC)3
- Netherlands4
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast5
- Slovakia
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- and other areas
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 4 March 2007.
- ^ Müller O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. 2001. Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
- ^ http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/landmollusken/wetenschappelijk/zonitoides-nitidus/
- ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/55.shtml
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