Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 21. (Budapest 1924)

Soós, L. ; Schlesch, H.: Notes on some Arctic Mollusca from Greenland

The following species have further been recorded from Greenland ; their occurrence, hOwever, was based on single specimens, which in all probability had been introduced : Agriolimax agrestis (LINNE) Arion fuscus MULLER (== A. subfuscus DRAP.? — SIMBOTH). Hyalinia alliaria MILLER Helix hortensis MULLER. FABRICIUS

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) described a Helix nitidq, which MORCH

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) believed must be a. Hyalinia. Further GODSIR, recorded by FOBBBS (cf. POSSELT 5

) has found a HyaUnia aUiaria MILLEB in Greenland. About Helix hortensis MULL., MGECH

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) say's „Dr. Beck writes in his Mss. about this species: Wormskiold has told me that he found on the leaves of the small shrubs of Salix lanata, in the vicinity of the interior of the gulf of Tgaliko (Igaliko) a. banded snail not unlike our garden snails. Two years ago (1844?) I obtained a dead specimen from Greenland, probably introduced". POSSELT') says, that a small yellow same coloured specimen was foimd by EBERLIN 1884 in the stomach of a Somateria mollissima at Nanortalik. About Agriolimax agrestis (L.) and Arion fuscus MULL. POSSELT

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) writes, in translation: „In his Prodromus Faunae Molluscorum Groenlandiae from 1857, MORCH gives Limax agrestis from Greenland („aceording to Wormskiold"), but 1868 (Americ. Journ. Conch., Vol. 4, p. 37) the same author states „1 mentioncd this species on account of the following note :in M6LLER'S Mss: „Limax agrestis was, according to Dr. BECK, seen by Wormskiold in Greenland 1813. According to BECK'S Mss. this statement is erroneous, or a mistake of memory for the following species. This — Arion fuscus MTJLL. is correctly found in Greenland, at Godthaab abouf 1836 a single specimen, which is still in existence, but since that time nobody has seen it. The above speciinen iscertainly onlya accidental visitor, probably introduced with cabbage froni Denmark. The German Author D. S. HETNEMANN mentions in his account „Die nackten Landpulmonaten des Erdbodens"

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) from Greenland AgrioUmax agrestis (L.) and Arion fuseus MULL. (subfuscus ? SIMROTH,) but this statement is probably based on MOBCH". *) Kauna Groenlandica, Kobenhavn 1780, p. 389. *) Americ. Journ. Conch., 1868, p. 29. Q

) Gronlands Braehiopoder og Bloddyr, p. 266. 6

) Americ. Jonrn. Coneh. p. 38. 7

) Gronlands Brachiopoder og Bloddyr, p. 266. H

) Gronlands Braehiopodcr og BlOddyr, p. 267—68.' fl

) Jahrb. deutsch. Malak. Ges. 1885, p. 236 et 48.