Zonitoides glomerulus

Zonitoides glomerulus is a European species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.^[1]

Zonitoides glomerulus
Shell of Zonitoides glomerulus (holotype)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Gastrodontidae
Genus:	Zonitoides
Species:	Z. glomerulus
Binomial name
Zonitoides glomerulus (E. von Martens, 1892)
Synonyms
Hyalinia glomerula E. von Martens, 1892 Zonitoides (Zonitellus) glomerulus (E. von Martens, 1892) Zonitoides (Zonitoides) glomerulus (E. von Martens, 1892) · alternate representation

Description

The diameter of the shell varies between 4.3 and 5 mm (0.17 and 0.20 in), its altitude is 2 mm (0.079 in).

(Original description in Latin) The shell has a narrow umbilicus. It is globular subdepressed. It is shiny, white and transparent. The shell contains four convex whorls. There are no spiral striae. The suture is deep. The body whorl is subequally convex above and below, slightly bent anteriorly. The aperture is slightly oblique, lunate-subcircular, with the edges removed to insert into each other. The wide columella is arched.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Guatemala.