MollBase: here - database of
Schleswig-Holstein
=>> to the MAP 1991 of this
species
Status quo (red dots: data newer than 2000):
Vertigo moulinsiana is living in open reeds of Carex and Phragmites,
sometimes near Alnus or Salix, normally not in real woods. In
Schleswig-Holstein it is reported mostly in scattered localities, almost all
of them restricted to the
"Östliches Hügelland"-region (moraines of the last glaciation). Up
to 2007 about 180 geographically separated or ecological defined localities
for V. moulinsiana in Schleswig-Holstein are known.
(Video of crawling Vertigo moulinsiana is shown below, 800 kb)
Vertigo moulinsiana was chosen as the first German "Mollusk of the year" (2003).
Vertigo moulinsiana -
video 800 kb, this needs some loading time