Oxychilus draparnaudi (H. Beck, 1837)

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

Oxychilus draparnaudi (H. Beck, 1837)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: E94F290E-6777-5EBE-A1C9-EDA1433C6C8F; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Brento (8), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 436 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; identificationQualifier: cf. draparnaudi; Event: eventDate: 28.VIII.2020

Notes

The shell is similar to O. alliarius , but the colour is darker. Both specimens were collected in the wood upstream to the road to Monte Adone-Brento, at a depth of 40-50 cm. This species inhabits the leaf litter in broad-leaved, deciduous forests; caves, even in depth; vegetation and rocky outcrops with a suitable level of moisture and sheltering ( Boato et al. 1984, Cossignani and Cossignani 1995). It is also common in gardens, urban waste ground, roadside rubbish, compost heaps and greenhouses ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Welter-Schultes 2012). O. draparnaudi feeds on earthworms, juvenile slugs, juvenile snails, even cat and dog food ( Welter-Schultes 2012). Fossils from genus Oxychilus were found in Quaternary sites near to Pietra Ligure and Capo Mele (Savona, Italy; Boato et al. 1984).