Helix ligata O. F. Mueller , 1774

Plazzi, Federico & Pedroni, Guido, 2023, Biodiversity of extant snails (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in the Pliocene Mountain Spur Natural Reserve (Northern Apennine, Italy), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 95688-95688 : 95688

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e95688

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scientific name

Helix ligata O. F. Mueller , 1774
status

 

Helix ligata O. F. Mueller, 1774

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: 119F39EC-11D6-54FC-AB64-D7C1D7F458D6; Location : country: Italy; locality: Slopes of Monte Mario (2), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 241 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 31.VIII.2020

Notes

The shell is highly variable; typically, it is large, ranging from beige to brown in colour. Specimens were caught in a sandy underbrush, at the surface. This species is common in dense vegetation along water bodies, as well as in the underbrush, in mountain areas from Northern Apennine to Calabria, sometimes over the timberline ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Welter-Schultes 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Geomitridae

Genus

Helix