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Issue: Vol. 2634 No. 1: 4 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2634.1.4
Page range: 57–62
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 19

Vertigo botanicorum sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae)—a new whorl-snail from the Russian Altai Mountains

Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-61137 Brno, Czech Republic
Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland
Mollusca Vertigo terrestrial microgastropods new species southern Siberia distribution ecology

Abstract

Vertigo botanicorum sp. nov. is described from the Russian Altai Mountains. The species was recorded in 8 out of 118 study sites and totally 21 live individuals and 15 empty shells were collected. It is a medium-sized Vertigo species living in various tall-forb meadows, shrubby and forest habitats; avoiding only dry and strictly open sites. Mostly it was found in rather acidic sites of higher altitudes (above 1300 m a.s.l.).

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