| Zonitoides excavatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Zonitoides |
| Subgenus: | Zonitoides |
| Species: | Z. excavatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Zonitoides excavatus (Alder, 1830])[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix excavata Alder, 1830 |
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Zonitoides excavatus is a European species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.
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Distribution of Zonitoides excavatus include:
Zonitoides excavatus is smaller than Zonitoides nitidus.[2] The umbilicus is extremely wide and perspectivically open (like Discus rotundatus).[2] The shell is weakly brown, slightly transparent, with radial streaks.[2] The animal is dark.[2]
The width of the shell is 5.3-6 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 2.8-3.4 mm.[2]
Zonitoides excavatus lives in leaf litter zone and under dead wood in old natural forests, sometimes also in swamps (western Ireland and western Great Britain).[2] It lives only on non-calcareous soils.[2] It tolerates some degree of human disturbance and replanting, but usually not in forest plantations.[2]
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2].
