Monachoides incarnatus (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

Monachoides incarnatus (O. F. Mueller, 1774)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 4; occurrenceID: 7E444BCE-95AC-5687-BA9D-33DF51218C30; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Campiuno , between Monte del Frate and Monte Adone (7), PMS ; verbatimElevation: 421 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 5.IX.2021

Notes

Shell ranging from yellowish to brown-reddish, translucent; microsculpture reticulated, regular, very fine; aperture edge is normally reddish, with a whitish band inside; umbilicus very narrow, but open. This thermophilic subspecies ( Girod 2011) can be found in moist environments, woods and hedges, in sunny areas, up to an elevation of 1,500 m a.s.l., especially when shrubby vegetation is present ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Girod 2011). Juveniles climb up plants and feed on rotting vegetation, while adults feed on dead leaves of plants near water bodies ( Welter-Schultes 2012).