A Key to the Land Snails of the Flatford area, Suffolk

THE Field Centre and its surroundings at Flatford Mill lie away from the East Anglian chalk, on quaternary drifts and alluvium; they are thus poorer in land-snails than the richest and classic localities such as Boxhill and the woods of Kent and Surrey. Nevertheless, a well-planted area with such a diversity of habitats is bound to provide a good species list, and the present records at the Centre show 39 species of shelled land molluscs, that is to say, exclusive of slugs. Land snails are an important group to ecologists, but unfortunately the student beginning field work has initial difficulties with the existing reference works. The object of this simple Key is therefore to provide recognition characters and outline drawings of all those species of land snails that have already been taken, or may be expected to turn up from time to time, in the area worked from Flatford Mill. The slugs are already well introduced in the excellent Synopsis by Quick ( I949).
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]. E. MORTON AND J. MACHIN
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FSC Field Studies 1 (1959), 57-71