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 Oxychilus draparnaudi (H. Beck, 1837) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Pedroni ; individualCount: 2 ; occurrenceID: E94F290E-6777-5EBE-A1C9-EDA1433C6C8F ; Location : country: Italy ; locality: Near Brento (8), PMS, Setta Valley ; verbatimElevation: 436 m ; Identification : identifiedBy: Della Bella & Scarponi ; identificationQualifier: cf. draparnaudi; Event : eventDate: 28.VIII.2020 Notes The shell is similar to O. alliarius , but the colour is darker. Both specimens were collected in the wood upstream to the road to Monte Adone-Brento, at a depth of 40-50 cm. This species inhabits the leaf litter in broad-leaved, deciduous forests; caves, even in depth; vegetation and rocky outcrops with a suitable level of moisture and sheltering ( Boato et al. 1984 , Cossignani and Cossignani 1995 ). It is also common in gardens, urban waste ground, roadside rubbish, compost heaps and greenhouses ( Kerney and Cameron 1979 , Welter-Schultes 2012 ). O. draparnaudi feeds on earthworms, juvenile slugs, juvenile snails, even cat and dog food ( Welter-Schultes 2012 ). Fossils from genus Oxychilus were found in Quaternary sites near to Pietra Ligure and Capo Mele (Savona, Italy; Boato et al. 1984 ).