Zonitoides lateumbilicatus
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| Zonitoides lateumbilicatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Zonitoides |
| Species: | Z. lateumbilicatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Zonitoides lateumbilicatus (Pilsbry, 1895) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gastrodonta (Pseudohyalina) lateumbilicata Pilsbry, 1895 (original combination) | |
Zonitoides lateumbilicatus is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.[1]
The altitude of the shell attains 1.4 mm (0.06 in), its diameter 4.3 mm (0.17 in).
(Original description) The shell resembles Pseudohyalina limatula (synonym of Zonitoides limatulus (A. Binney, 1840) ) in color, texture and sculpture, but it is much depressed. The upper surface is almost flat, the last whorl has a much smaller calibre, the umbilicus is very much wider, shallow. And its cavity is widely open and saucer-shaped, much as in Helicodiscus lineatus (Say, 1817) (synonym of Helicodiscus parallelus (Say, 1821)).[2]
