Dear Angela Lush,

I am working on landshells in Austria and for the Museum in Innsbruck.
Please visit my homepage under www.netwing.at/nisters/.

Concerning the species you requested they are all in general Mediterranean species. Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778) is
a quite globulose shells with an umbilicus belonging to the
Fam. Hygromiidae as also the other do.
Cochlicella acuta and Cochlicella barbara are topic and pointed
landshells. While Cochlicella acuta is a slender shells, Cochlicella
barbara is much broader. Only as juvenile shells sometimes they
are hardly to dinstinguish. Microxeromagna vestita is quite small,
only at about to 7 mm and it's living not so Mediterranean as the
other species.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck
The all live in nearly the same habitats.


Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
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url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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I am a new subscriber to the group and I am working with several terrestrial
snail species in Australia. I would be interested in any information,
particularly keys to identification for Microxeromagna vestita; Cochlicella
barbara; Cochlicella acuta and Cernuella virgata.

I am investigating the biology of these species particularly M.vestita, and
would appreciate any information about taxonomy, biology and global
distribution of these species.



Angela Lush
Research Officer
South Australian Research and Development Institute
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