Cernuella neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805)

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

Cernuella neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: 2A416867-0A6A-5CA9-ABE8-00E2D7658DC5; Location : country: Italy; locality: Road to Monte Adone (near Campiuno) (6), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 374 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; Event: eventDate: 28.VIII. 2020 Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 4; occurrenceID: 008BAE09-14E1-5152-9398-3455C6FCADE9; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Brento , (10), PMS, Savena Valley ; verbatimElevation: 428 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 5.IX.2021

Notes

Shell small, with white and brown stripes; shape somewhat flattened; umbilicus well open. Specimens were collected on sandy-clayey slopes in front of the road between Monte del Frate and Monte Adone, at the surface. Normally, this species lives in roadsides and screes, on coastal dunes, as well as in arid grasslands ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Cossignani and Cossignani 2020). Cernuella neglecta climbs herbal plants and trunks to estivate ( Welter-Schultes 2012). The range characterisation of this species is hampered by misidentification in literature ( Welter-Schultes 2012).