Moluscos em área de horticultura no município de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Mollusca in horticultural production area in Porto Alegre county, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

<abstract language="eng">Horticultural production areas are favorable to development and maintenance of land mollusks populations. To know the mollusk fauna diversity in that kind of production area a research project was conduced in a rural-urban district of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The production property studied is located in the Southern zone of the city and has 17 ha of cultivated area. The sampling period was from August/2000 to August/2001, with monthly quantitative collects on the different culture production beds previously selected. Six taxa were registered: Deroceras leave (Müller, 1774) (1.389 specimens = 82,82%), Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1821) (195 specimens = 11,7%), Succinea meridionalis d'Orbigny, 1846 (82 specimens = 4,9%), Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834) (03 specimens = 0,17%), Bulimulus (Bulimulus) vesicalis angustus Weyrauch, 1966 (05 specimens = 0,3%) and Megalobulimus abbreviatus (Bequaert, 1948) (02 specimens = 0,11 %), only the last two being natives

Bulimulidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) do nordeste do Brasil

<abstract language="eng">Results from studies with Bulimulidae from Northeast Brazil, with special reference to the State of Pernambuco, are presented. About 14 spp., of Bulimulidae s.s. were collected and represent one of the most diversified families of land snails in this area. From these, Drymaeus rufolineatus (Droüet, 1859) and Simpulopsis corrugata, Guppy, 1866, were recorded for the first time in Northeast Brazil and a new subspecies Drymaeus b. goianensis is described. Data of geografic distribution, ecology and shell morphology for each species are given