Zonitoides nitidus

Zonitoides nitidus
Two shells of Zonitoides nitidus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Gastrodontidae
Genus: Zonitoides
Species:
Z. nitidus
Binomial name
Zonitoides nitidus
(Müller, 1774)[1]
Synonyms
  • Helicella nitida (O. F. Müller, 1774) superseded combination
  • Helix hydrophyla Miles, 1861 (nomen nudum)
  • Helix nitida O. F. Müller, 1774 (original combination)
  • Hyalina (Euhyalina) yessoensis Reinhardt, 1877 (junior synonym)
  • Oxychilus lucidus (Draparnaud, 1801) junior subjective synonym
  • Zonites nitidus (O. F. Müller, 1774) superseded combination
  • Zonitoides (Zonitoides) nitidus (O. F. Müller, 1774) alternate representation
  • Zonitoides nitidus var. borealis Clessin, 1878 (junior synonym)
  • Zonitoides subarboreus Pilsbry, 1902 (junior synonym)

Zonitoides nitidus (sometimes Zonitoides nitida),[2] also known as the shiny glass snail or black gloss, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrodontidae.[3]

Zonitoides nitidus is the type species of the genus Zonitoides.

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ "Zonitoides nitida". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on 2016-12-25. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Zonitoides nitidus (O. F. Müller, 1774)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-12-09.