Zonitidae, the Glossary
Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Zonitoidea.[1]
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73 relations: Aegopinella, Aegopis, Aegopis verticillus, Agriolimacidae, Allaegopis, AnimalBase, Aperture (mollusc), Ariophantidae, Balcanodiscus, Boettgerilla, Brazieria, Chromosome, Chronidae, Cladogram, Common name, Cretaceous, Doraegopis, Dyakiidae, Eopolita, Euconulidae, Family (biology), Gastrodontidae, Gastrodontoidea, Gastropod shell, Gastropoda, Genus, George Washington Tryon, Glyphyalinia, Gollumia, Helicarionidae, Helicarionoidea, Journal of Biogeography, Land snail, Limacidae, Limacoidea, Limacoidei, Love dart, Meledella, Mesomphix, Milacidae, Mollusca, Nocturnality, Northern Hemisphere, Ogaridiscus, Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch, Oxychilidae, Palearctic realm, Paleocene, Paraegopis, Paravitrea, ... Expand index (23 more) »
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Aegopinella
Aegopinella is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.
Aegopis
Aegopis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae, the true glass snails.
Aegopis verticillus
Aegopis verticillus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae, the true glass snails.
See Zonitidae and Aegopis verticillus
Agriolimacidae
Agriolimacidae is a family of small and medium-sized land slugs, or shell-less snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
See Zonitidae and Agriolimacidae
Allaegopis
Allaegopis is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
AnimalBase
AnimalBase is a project brought to life in 2004 and is maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Aperture (mollusc)
The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc.
See Zonitidae and Aperture (mollusc)
Ariophantidae
Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
See Zonitidae and Ariophantidae
Balcanodiscus
Balcanodiscus is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
See Zonitidae and Balcanodiscus
Boettgerilla
Boettgerilla is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Boettgerillidae.
See Zonitidae and Boettgerilla
Brazieria
Brazieria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.
Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
Chronidae
Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea within the superorder Eupulmonata.
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Doraegopis
Doraegopis is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Eopolita
Eopolita is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Oxychilidae.
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Zonitidae and Family (biology)
Gastrodontidae
Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
See Zonitidae and Gastrodontidae
Gastrodontoidea
Gastrodontoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the limacoid clade.
See Zonitidae and Gastrodontoidea
Gastropod shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc.
See Zonitidae and Gastropod shell
Gastropoda
Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George Washington Tryon
George Washington Tryon Jr. (20 May 1838 – 5 February 1888) was an American malacologist who worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
See Zonitidae and George Washington Tryon
Glyphyalinia
Glyphyalinia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae.
See Zonitidae and Glyphyalinia
Gollumia
Gollumia is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Pristilomatidae.
Helicarionidae
Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
See Zonitidae and Helicarionidae
Helicarionoidea
Helicarionoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Limacoidei.
See Zonitidae and Helicarionoidea
Journal of Biogeography
The Journal of Biogeography is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in biogeography that was established in 1974.
See Zonitidae and Journal of Biogeography
Land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails.
Limacidae
Limacidae, also known by their common name the keelback slugs, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Limacoidea.
Limacoidea
Limacoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails.
Limacoidei
The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina.
Love dart
A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create.
Meledella
Meledella is a monotypic genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
Mesomphix
Mesomphix is a genus of terrestrial gastropods belonging to the family Gastrodontidae.
Milacidae
Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs.
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
See Zonitidae and Nocturnality
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
See Zonitidae and Northern Hemisphere
Ogaridiscus
Ogaridiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae.
Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch
Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (his last name also spelled Mørch) (17 May, 1828 – 25 January, 1878) was a Danish zoologist who was known for his work in malacology, the study of molluscs.
See Zonitidae and Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch
Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.
See Zonitidae and Palearctic realm
Paleocene
The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).
Paraegopis
Paraegopis is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
Paravitrea
Paravitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae, the true glass snails.
Parmacellidae
Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
See Zonitidae and Parmacellidae
Parmacelloidea
Parmacelloidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora and the informal group Pulmonata.
See Zonitidae and Parmacelloidea
Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
See Zonitidae and Phylogenetics
Pierre Denys de Montfort
Pierre Denys de Montfort, also spelt Pierre Dénys de Montfort, (1766–1820) was a French naturalist, in particular a malacologist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the gigantic octopuses.
See Zonitidae and Pierre Denys de Montfort
Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
Pristilomatidae
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
See Zonitidae and Pristilomatidae
Pulmonata
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills.
Retinella
Retinella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.
Spire (mollusc)
A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs.
See Zonitidae and Spire (mollusc)
Staffordiidae
Staffordiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
See Zonitidae and Staffordiidae
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater, and from saltwater).
See Zonitidae and Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
Terrestrial mollusc
Terrestrial molluscs or land molluscs (mollusks) are an ecological group that includes all molluscs that live on land in contrast to freshwater and marine molluscs.
See Zonitidae and Terrestrial mollusc
Trigonochlamydidae
Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
See Zonitidae and Trigonochlamydidae
Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
See Zonitidae and Trochomorphidae
Troglaegopis
Troglaegopis is a monotypic genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
See Zonitidae and Troglaegopis
Turcozonites
Turcozonites is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Zonitidae.
See Zonitidae and Turcozonites
Type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Umbilicus (mollusc)
The umbilicus of a shell is the axially aligned, hollow cone-shaped space within the whorls of a coiled mollusc shell.
See Zonitidae and Umbilicus (mollusc)
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Ventridens
Ventridens is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.
Vitrinidae
Vitrinidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Zonites
Zonites is a genus of mostly small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae.
Zonitidae
Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Zonitoidea. Zonitidae and Zonitidae are Extant Paleocene first appearances.
See also
Extant Paleocene first appearances
- Aldrovanda
- Alligatorinae
- Apodiformes
- Atlantogenata
- Australidelphia
- Boinae
- Cariamiformes
- Carpilioidea
- Cassis (gastropod)
- Chaeteessidae
- Chameleon
- Cheloniidae
- Cibicides
- Clavulina (foram)
- Common mudpuppy
- Corallus
- Diplodactylidae
- Euarchonta
- Euarchontoglires
- Eulipotyphla
- Fabaceae
- Flatfish
- Fungus-growing ants
- Galliformes
- Glires
- Haplorhini
- Heron
- Hexapodidae
- Houndshark
- Lagomorpha
- Lemuriformes
- Marsupial
- Necturus
- Owl
- Pangolin
- Phidoloporidae
- Placentalia
- Polinices
- Proxiuber
- Rhineuridae
- Scaphella
- Scrotifera
- Strisores
- Struthionidae
- Triakis
- Ungulate
- Xenarthra
- Zonitidae
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonitidae
Also known as True glass snails, Zonitoidea.
, Parmacellidae, Parmacelloidea, Phylogenetics, Pierre Denys de Montfort, Ploidy, Pristilomatidae, Pulmonata, Retinella, Spire (mollusc), Staffordiidae, Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Terrestrial mollusc, Trigonochlamydidae, Trochomorphidae, Troglaegopis, Turcozonites, Type genus, Umbilicus (mollusc), Urocyclidae, Ventridens, Vitrinidae, Zonites, Zonitidae.