Zonitoides hoffmanni is a European species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae. [1]
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| Shell of Zonitoides hoffmanni (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Description
editThe diameter of the shell varies between 5.3 mm and 6 mm, its altitude 2.5 mm.
(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]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in Costa Rica.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonitoides hoffmanni (E. von Martens, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1447647 on 2023-12-07
- ^ Martens, E. von. (1890-1901). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater Mollusca. London: Francis & Taylor, xxviii + 706 pp., 44 pls.