Zonitoides is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818641 on 2023-12-03
Distribution The distribution of Zonitoides includes North America, eastern and northern Asia, and Europe."Genus summary for Zonitoides". AnimalBase, last modified 22 January 2009, accessed 3 September 2010. Also in Australia (Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island).
Species Species within the genus Zonitoides include: Zonitoides apertus Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904 † Zonitoides apneus (Bourguignat, 1881) Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1817) † Zonitoides cesseyensis Schlickum, 1975 † Zonitoides choukoutienensis (Ping, 1929) † Zonitoides cretaceus Yen, 1969 Zonitoides elliotti (Redfield, 1858) Zonitoides excavatus (Alder, 1830) Zonitoides glomerulus (E. von Martens, 1892) Zonitoides hoffmanni (Martens, 1892) Zonitoides jaccetanicus (Bourguignat, 1870) Zonitoides kirbyi R. W. Fullington, 1974 Zonitoides lateumbilicatus (Pilsbry, 1895) Zonitoides limatulus (A. Binney, 1840) Zonitoides multivolvis (Pilsbry, 1926) Zonitoides nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851) Zonitoides nitidus (Müller, 1774) - type species Zonitoides notabilis (Sykes, 1897) Zonitoides ostauri Pilsbry, 1926 Zonitoides patuloides (Pilsbry, 1895) † Zonitoides pellati (Deshayes, 1863) † Zonitoides schaireri Schlickum, 1978 † Zonitoides sepultus Ložek, 1964 † Zonitoides silvanus Wenz, 1924 † Zonitoides subradiatulus (Łomnicki, 1886) † Zonitoides suevicus (Jooss, 1918) Zonitoides tehuantepecensis (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1870) † Zonitoides wenzi (Royo Gómez, 1928)
Anatomy Species in this genus of snails make and use love darts.
References
Lehmann, R. 1862. Ueber eine neve Heliceen-Gattung. Malakozoologische Blätter 9: 111-112 Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Academy of Natural Sciences Philadadelphia, Monograph 2(2): 521-1113 Bishop, M.J. 1978. Zonitoides arboreus (Say) (Pulmonata : Zonitidae) introduced into Australia and the identity of Alienator Iredale. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 7-8
External links Iredale, T. (1937). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist. 8(4): 287-333
Baker, H. B. (1930). Gender in generic names. The Nautilus. 43(4): 139-140.