Terrestrial snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

By

Forsyth, Robert G.
Lepitzki, Dwayne A. W.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-4-22

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

1636--6

Subjects

Discus shimekii , Great Plains , Land snails , Mollusca , Pupilla blandii , species’ inventory , Succineidae , Vallonia gracilicosta

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.3.1636

 

Abstract

There are few studies on the terrestrial molluscs of the Great Plains of Alberta. Nearly all previously published surveys have focused on the faunas of the Rocky Mountain Foothills, the Cypress Hills, the Parklands of Central Alberta, or the boreal forests. By means of hand-picking and litter samples, we surveyed for the first time the terrestrial snail fauna in the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta, Canada. From among the hoodoos (weathered rock formations) and along the cliffs on the north side of the Milk River, we found terrestrial snails at four of our five sites within the hot, dry valley of the river. Our study confirms our assumptions that the terrestrial snail fauna in these hostile habitats lacks diversity.