Zonitoides elliotti, common name green dome, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Zonitoides |
| Species: | Z. elliotti
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| Zonitoides elliotti (Redfield, 1858)
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Description
editThe altitude of the shell ranges between 4 mm and 4.9 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm to 9 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in North America, specifically, it is native to the eastern United States (southern Appalachian Mountains, from West Virginia to northern Georgia and Alabama), found in leaf litter and among spongy logs.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonitoides elliotti (Redfield, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1352104 on 2023-12-07
- Redfield, J.H. (1856). Descriptions of two new species of North American Helicidae. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 6: 170-172.
External links
edit- Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Zonitoides elliotti - image
- Flickr.com: image
- L. Hubricht (1985)- The distributions of the native land mollusks of the Eastern United States
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