Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Mueller , 1774)

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

Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Mueller, 1774)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 95568C74-02E6-5D98-9204-64145558F19D; Location : country: Italy; locality: Fosso Raibano , Raibano Valley (3), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 231 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 12.IX. 2020 Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 3; occurrenceID: 0CFDFB44-BDD2-5981-923C-7EDA1DF0FF9F; Location : country: Italy; locality: Near Brento (10), PMS, Savena Valley ; verbatimElevation: 428 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 5.IX.2021

Notes

Shell medium-sized, globular; umbilicus deep; ranging from white to brown in colour. The specimen was collected in the underbrush, at the surface. The species inhabits open meadows, as well as wood leaf litter, edges of woods and bushes in moist habitats ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995), while it is normally absent from open, sunny sites, since it is sensitive to drought ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Welter-Schultes 2012). This species was also found in the Padan Plain ( Boato et al. 1984). It feeds on dead leaves, herbs and mushrooms ( Welter-Schultes 2012). This is the first report for the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine and Emilia-Romagna areas.