Monacha martensiana (Tiberi, 1869)

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

Monacha martensiana (Tiberi, 1869)
status

 

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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 1 + 1 juvenile; occurrenceID: E714C6A5-E7D5-5D89-B9C8-65CC8D744B16; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Campiuno , between Monte del Frate and Monte Adone (7), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 421 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 5.IX.2021

Notes

Shell ranging from whitish to cream, translucent, similar to other species of the genus Monacha , but the shell is more flattened. The species dwells in habitats with grassy vegetation, such as meadows, on calcareous substrates ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Welter-Schultes 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Hygromiidae

Genus

Monacha