Helix cincta 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

Helix cincta O. F. Mueller, 1774

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: several specimens; occurrenceID: 2EF8E4CE-FFA0-5A46-9895-A5FFF4248C7F; Location : country: Italy; locality: Monte Mario (1), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 231 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 31.VIII. 2020 Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 3; occurrenceID: 8F341085-DAEA-5669-9C49-C56931C66206; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Brento (8), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 436 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; Event: eventDate: 28.VIII.2020

Notes

Colour globally brown; shape globular; suture shallow; whorls thick and rounded; umbilicus open. Specimens were collected beside the road to Monte Adone-Brento, at the surface. This species inhabits grassy habitats, rocky areas and woodlands ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995). It can burrow in the soil and remain burrowed for long periods: in Crete, it appears for only a few days in a year at the first winter rainfall ( Welter-Schultes 2012).