Ena montana

Mountain Wolverine worm ( Ena montana)

The mountain glutton worm ( Ena montana), referred to by some authors as a mountain - tower snail, is a species of snail wolverine snail family ( Enidae ) from the subordination of terrestrial snails ( gastropod ).

Features

The housing is spitzkonisch and has 7-8 turns which are relatively flat. Adult they reach a height of 14-17 mm and a thickness of 6 to 7 mm. The mouth rim is bent, but only slightly thickened. At the top of the mouth a callus is developed instead of a lip. The aperture rim is pale pink to white. The surface of the body is covered with vigorous, partly granular, slightly irregular growth lines and only slightly shiny. The color varies from light to dark brown, the apex can be almost white by bleaching. The soft body of the animal is dark brown to purple brown with darker spots on the top and the head of the animal.

Occurrence, lifestyle and dissemination

The mountain glutton worm comes in old forests and leaf litter and foliage before, between stones and rocks, less often in old hedgerows and bushes. In humid weather, it often rises up to trees and stones. She prefers to live in the middle and high mountains, and occasionally in the lowlands. In the Alps, she comes up against a height of 2000 m. It is generally rather rare and the deposits are very isolated. Little is known about the diet. She seems to be wilting of plants and to eat decaying organic material. The species is widespread in Central Europe. In the east the area of ​​distribution to central Russia and in the Carpathian ranges, west to eastern France and western Alps. From Western Europe only isolated occurrences in western France and southern England and the Pyrenees are known.

System

The species was described by Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud as Bulimus montanus in 1801 for the first time scientifically. There are at least two synonyms. Ena montana ( Draparnaud, 1801) is the typical species of the genus Ena Turton, 1831st