Candidula unifasciata unifasciata (Poiret, 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

Candidula unifasciata unifasciata (Poiret, 1801)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: DA8D1352-57EA-54A3-BABE-446817C4E7C5; Location : country: Italy; locality: Slopes of Monte Mario (2), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 241 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni; Event: eventDate: 17.VIII.2021

Notes

Shell medium-sized to small; ranging from white to grey, with a dark brown band and other patterns (bands or spots) on the lower region; 5-6 coils are present; peristome thick, sometimes with teeth; umbilicus narrow. Specimens were collected in the underbrush, close to the sandstone walls of Monte Mario, at the surface. Individuals of this subspecies perfer dry environments between rocks and rocky outcrops, dry meadows and walls ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995, Welter-Schultes 2012, Cossignani and Cossignani 2020) or, more generically, open habitats and areas where grasses were somewhat scraped, from the mountain plain to the vegetation limit in high altitude plain, up to 2,400 m ( Kerney and Cameron 1979, Welter-Schultes 2012). This subspecies is also known as a Pleistocene fossil in the Verezzi area (Savona, Italy; Boato et al. (1984)).