Introduction of the Predatory Land Snail Species Poiretia delesserti (Spiraxidae) in France

Bernhard Hausdorf; Stephan Solvery

doi:10.4002/040.063.0209

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Bernhard Hausdorf,^1,* Stephan Solvery^2,*

¹Zoological Museum, Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
²Protect WildLife, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.

^*Corresponding author: hausdorf@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de

Abstract

We report an introduction of the predatory land snail Poiretia delesserti (Bourguignat, 1852) (Spiraxidae) from Albania and Greece in Cagnes-sur-Mer in southeastern France discovered by a citizen scientist. An uncontrolled expansion of this species in this region, which is characterized by a high number of endemic land snail species, is likely to result in extinctions. Therefore, we recommend the nature conservation authorities to survey the site to quantify population density and extent and to eradicate the introduced population of P. delesserti via manual collection.

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Bernhard Hausdorf and Stephan Solvery "Introduction of the Predatory Land Snail Species Poiretia delesserti (Spiraxidae) in France," Malacologia 63(2), 307-310, (1 March 2021). https://doi.org/10.4002/040.063.0209

Accepted: 24 October 2020; Published: 1 March 2021

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