The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)
Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
Animals
_Great Britain._--There are in all about 130 species--83 land, 46
fresh-water; _Limnaea involuta_ (mountain tarn near Killarney) appears
to be the only peculiar species. There are 11 _Hyalinia_, 5 _Arion_,
and 25 _Helix_, the latter belonging principally to the sub-genera
_Xerophila_, _Tachea_, _Trichia_, and _Fruticicola_. Three _Testacella_
are probably not indigenous, but are now so well established as to
reckon in the total. Of the four _Clausilia_ two reach Ireland and
one Scotland; two do not occur north of the Forth. There are only
two land operculates, one of which (_Cyclostoma elegans_) occurs in
Ireland but not in Scotland, while the other (_Acicula lineata_)
reaches the southern counties of Scotland. Several species, _e.g._
_Helix pomatia_, _H. obvoluta_, _H. revelata_, _H. cartusiana_, _H.
pisana_, _Buliminus montanus_, are restricted to the more southern or
western counties; _Geomalacus maculosus_ is confined to a district in
south-western Ireland.
The Pleistocene beds of East Anglia contain a number of species now
extinct in these islands, whose occurrence appears to indicate a warmer
climate than the present. Such are _Helix ruderata_, _H. fruticum_,
_H. incarnata_, _Clausilia pumila_, _Unio littoralis_, _Hydrobia
marginata_, and _Corbicula fluminalis_.
_Scandinavian Peninsula._--From Norway 121 species in all are recorded,
and 148 from Sweden. The milder climate of Norway allows many species
to reach a considerably higher latitude than in Sweden, thus in Sweden
_Limax maximus_ only reaches 62°, but in Norway 66° 50´. Similarly
_Arion hortensis_ and _Balea perversa_ only reach 63° and 61°
respectively in Sweden, but in Norway are found as far north as 69° and
67° 50´. _Clausilia_ is represented by 9 species in southern Norway;
one of these is found north of the Arctic circle. There are 4 _Pupa_,
9 _Vertigo_, and 11 _Hyalinia_, but _Helix_ dwindles to 14, 9 of which
occur north of the Arctic circle. No land operculates are found;
_Cyclostoma elegans_, however, occurs in Jutland and Zealand, which
practically form a part of this district.
_Iceland._--Eleven species, all Scandinavian, occur. These are _Arion_
2, _Limax_ 1, _Helix_ 2 (_arbustorum_ L. and _hortensis_ Müll., the
latter being found only on the warmer southern coast), _Limnaea_ 1,
_Planorbis_ 1, _Pisidium_ 4.
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