Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)

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

Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: 5CEE747A-6604-5E17-A809-4BABAB38D985; Location : country: Italy; locality: Road between Monte del Frate and Monte Adone (5), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 336 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; Event: eventDate: 31.XII. 2018 Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 9 + several juveniles; occurrenceID: FE561B99-CB3C-5930-9EC7-638BBA0880AC; Location : country: Italy; locality: Road to Monte Adone (below Campiuno) (6), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 374 m; Identification: identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi; Event: eventDate: 28.VIII.2020

Notes

Shell globular and thin, with a maximum of six coils; globally whitish and translucent, but the last coil is reddish around the peristome; umbilicus evident, but not completely open. Some specimens were collected down to a depth of 60 cm, below Campiuno. The species inhabits open environments, typically near water bodies and at lower elevations ( Boato et al. 1984, Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Cossignani and Cossignani 2020). It is not found in woods, rather it lives in roadside verges, hedges ( Kerney and Cameron 1979), railways, dunes and well-drained calcareous soils ( Welter-Schultes 2012).