Morlina glabra glabra ( Rossmaessler , 1835)

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

Morlina glabra glabra ( Rossmaessler, 1835)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 129A9E1F-8AB6-540C-AAFD-C30C48F3D477; Location : country: Italy; locality: Slopes of Monte Mario (2) PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 241 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 31.VIII.2020

Notes

Shell with five coils; diameter of about 14 mm; deep sutures. The single specimen of M. g. glabra was collected in a sandy underbrush below the walls of Monte Mario. Normally, this subspecies is found in underbrush, rocks and screes on open hillsides, as well as in biotopes in front of caves and in open, moist environments, but also leaf litter of deciduous and coniferous forests ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Welter-Schultes 2012). It is mailny montane and can reach up to 1,850 m a.s.l. in Switzerland ( Kerney and Cameron 1979). It feeds on plants and juvenile snails ( Welter-Schultes 2012). This is the first report for the Northern Apennine and Emilia-Romagna areas.