Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Genus Zonitoides Scientific name Zonitoides excavatus Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Gastrodontidae Subgenus Zonitoides Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Zonitoides, Zonitoides nitidus, Acicula fusca, Aegopinella pura, Aegopinella nitidula | ||
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
Distribution of Zonitoides excavatus include:
Description
Zonitoides excavatus is smaller than Zonitoides nitidus. The umbilicus is extremely wide and perspectivically open (as is the case in Discus rotundatus). The shell is weakly brown, slightly transparent, with radial streaks. The animal is dark.
The width of the shell is 5.3–6 mm, and the height of the shell is 2.8-3.4 mm.
Ecology
Zonitoides excavatus lives in leaf litter and under dead wood in old natural forests, sometimes also in swamps (western Ireland and western Great Britain). It lives only on non-calcareous soils. It tolerates some degree of human disturbance and replanting, but usually not in forest plantations.