Zonitoides hoffmanni
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| Zonitoides hoffmanni | |
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| Shell of Zonitoides hoffmanni (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Zonitoides |
| Species: | Z. hoffmanni |
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| Zonitoides hoffmanni (E. von Martens, 1892) | |
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Zonitoides hoffmanni is a European species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.[1]
The diameter of the shell varies between 5.3 and 6 mm (0.21 and 0.24 in), its altitude is 2.5 mm (0.098 in).
(Original description in Latin) The shell has a broad umbilicus. It is conoid-depressed and is striated. It is smooth with a pale greenish color. The shell contains 4½ convex whorls. The suture is deep enough. The body whorl is rounded, not bent anteriorly, excavated below, gradually reaching almost to the umbilicus. The aperture is slightly oblique, emarginate-subcircular, with removed edges. The columella is distinctly ascending.[2]