Biodiversity of extant snails (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in the Pliocene Mountain Spur Natural Reserve (Northern Apennine, Italy) Author Plazzi, Federico https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5920-7557 University of Bologna, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy federico.plazzi@unibo.it Author Pedroni, Guido Ente di Gestione per i Parchi e la Biodiversita - Emilia Orientale - Sede Parco Reg. le Corno alle Scale, Bologna, Italy & World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy text Biodiversity Data Journal 2023 2023-03-21 11 95688 95688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e95688 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e95688 1314-2828-11-e95688 D9D40A67F5765326AA08D266D10CE8DA Helix ligata O. F. Mueller , 1774 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2 ; occurrenceID: 119F39EC-11D6-54FC-AB64-D7C1D7F458D6 ; Location : country: Italy ; locality: Slopes of Monte Mario (2), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 241 m ; Identification : identifiedBy: Pedroni ; Event : eventDate: 31.VIII.2020 Notes The shell is highly variable; typically, it is large, ranging from beige to brown in colour. Specimens were caught in a sandy underbrush, at the surface. This species is common in dense vegetation along water bodies, as well as in the underbrush, in mountain areas from Northern Apennine to Calabria, sometimes over the timberline ( Cossignani and Cossignani 1995 , Welter-Schultes 2012 ).