Zonitoides nitidopsis

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

Zonitoides nitidopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Gastrodontidae
Genus:	Zonitoides
Species:	Z. nitidopsis
Binomial name
Zonitoides nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851)
Synonyms
Helix nitidopsis Morelet, 1851 Zonitoides (Zonitellus) nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851) Zonitoides (Zonitoides) nitidopsis (Morelet, 1851) · alternate representation

Description

The altitude of the shell attains 4 mm (0.16 in), its diameter 7 mm (0.28 in).

(Original text in Latin) The thin, amber shell is perforated, convex-depressed, glabrous, brown, ribbed and marked with small striae. It contains four barely convex whorls. The last whorl is concave. The aperture is lunate-circular. The peristome is acute and thin. ^[2]