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Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
They are part of the suborder Stylommatophora. There are no subfamilies in Zonitidae.
Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
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These snails live in damp places under stones etc.
The true glass snails are usually nocturnal.
The spiral, heliciform shells of these snails are flattened in shape with a very low spire. The shell is perforate or umbillicate. The lip of the aperture is simple, lacking thickened margin. These shells are more or less transparent as if made of glass, hence the popular name "glass snails". The shells are colorless or of an amber to brownish color.2
There are no subfamilies in Zonitidae.
Type genus is Zonites Montfort, 1810 .
Genera within the family Zonitidae include:
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