Notes on the Plant and Molluscan Ecology of a Saline Desert Area in Italian Somaliland including the description of a new species of Cleopatra (Mollusca)

Abstract

In December 1954 heavy rains resulting in bad road conditions caused one of the authors (C. F. H.) to stay at Beles Cugani ill Southern Somalia, situated at 00° 16' N., 41° 43' E. and at an altitude of 36-51 m. The opportunity was taken to collect, specimens of all the plants and snails observed and since reports other than .mere lists of species arc scanty the results were considered worthy of record. One new species has had to be described.