Malacological Diversity on Some Lamiaceae in the Region of Tlemcen （Northwest Algeria）.pdfVIP

August2013，Vo1．7，No．8，PP．856-861 JournalofLifeSciences，ISSN 1934-7391，USA MalaCOIOgiCalDiversityonSomeLamiaceaeinthe RegionofTlemcen(NorthwestAlgeria) AminaDamerdji DepartmentofEcologyandEnvironment,FaculytofS．N．V／S． UniversityofTlemcen，Tlemcen13000，Algeria Received：March28，2013／Accepted：July12，2013／Published：August30，2013 Abstract：TheregionofTlemcenislocatedinthenorthwestern partofAlgeria．Itsaridclimateleadstothedegradationofvegetmion inopenofrmation．wherecanbefoundthedoum thedissandbroom ．Otheraromaticspeciessuchasrosemary，thyme，lavenderand horehoundraeconsideredaswel1．ThefourpreviousraomaticspeciesbelongtothefamilyLabiataefortheirmorphologicalna d botnaicalcharacters．Theauthorsproposetodesignanapproachtoidentify thediversity ofmalacofaunafoundonthesedifferent Lamiaceae．Thesearecertainlyanutritionalsourceofrthismalacologicalfauna．So．asurveywasperformedinvariousstations．The malacologicalrichnessisestimatedtobe19ofrthyme，18ofrrosemary，16ofrlavender，andfinally7ofrhorehound．Itincludesofur families．namelyMilacidae，Sphincterochilidae，HelicidaeandSubulinidae．Milacidaearepresentonlyinhorehoundandlavender stations．Ontheotherhand，theSphincterochilidae，namelySphincterochilacandidissima，isabsentonhorehound．Ruminadecollata istheonlyspeciesinthefma ily Subulinidae．AsofrthefamilyHelicidae，itistherichestandincludestwospecificsubfma ilies： HelicinaeandHelicellinae．Thefirstsubfamilyconsistsofl1speciesofthyme．10speciesofrosemaryandlavender．Thesecond subfamilyincludes6speciesofthymenadrosemary nad3of1avender．respectively．Inaddition．theauthortriestolookforthe malacologicalspeciesspecifictoeachoftheseplnatsnadthosewhoraecommontothem aswel1．Finally，theverticaldistributionof gastropodsisgiven． Keywords：Malacologicalfauna,Lamiaceae，specificrichness，verticaldistribution，regionofTlemcen(northwestAlgeria) 1．Introduction [5]andLavandulamultifida[6]，respectively．