New Records of Desmoulin’s Whorl Snail Vertigo Moulinsiana (dupuy, 1849) (gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Vertiginidae) in North-Western Poland

Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy) is a small, endangered species of European land snail.It has been placed on the Red List of Threatened Species in Poland, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and is protected in the EU by the Habitats Directive.More than 90 localities of V. moulinsiana are known in Poland.Six new localities of the species have been found in the north-west of the country.The populations in the new localities are extremely abundant, and one of them was the most abundant of all the species' populations covered by the GIOŚ Polish State Environmental Monitoring Programme.Also V. angustior Jeffreys was found in this area.