Granaria variabilis (Draparnaud, 1801)

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

Granaria variabilis (Draparnaud, 1801)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: CBC717D2- 4AD 1-5585-BF5A-0B5F0FFE 9AD 8; Location : country: Italy; locality: Road to Monte Adone (below Campiuno) (6), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 374 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; Event: eventDate: 31.XII.2018

Notes

Shell cylindrical, short, stubby, brownish. Specimens were collected on the sandy underbrush soil, at the surface. The species inhabits environments with calcareous soils, provided that herbaceous or shrubby vegetation is present ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Nardi and Niero 2013). Granaria variabilis is a xerothermophilic species that dwells also on dry walls, from the sea level to 1,600 m a.s.l. ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Boato et al. 1984, Welter-Schultes 2012).