Plant used as sustrato for polymita picta, caracolus sagemon and coryda alauda in the secondary forest and heath coastal xeromorfo of the outstanding natural element Yara-Majayara, Baracoa,Guantánamo, Cuba.

Abstract

The investigation was carried out in two vegetable formations, located in the Outstanding Natural Element Yara-Majayara, to the southeast of the city of Baracoa, Guantánamo, Cuba. In the period understood among January-December of the 2010, with the objective of determining the species of plants that were being used as sustrato by the mollusks arboric  Polymita  picta, Caracolus sagemon and  Coryda alauda in this town. For they were carried out it 10 you parcel at random of 25 m² with 10m of distance among them, in each vegetable  formation 64  vegetable species were reported used as sustrato, 48 for the BS and 43 for the MXC. The used species were:  Ocotea coriacea (Sw.) Britton, Cupania americana L., Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq., Coccothrinax alexandri León*, Picramnia pentandra Sw.,  Rhytidophyllum villosulum  (Urb.) Morton.  The biggest use diversity belonged to P. picta, and the smallest Coryda alauda, being P. picta more generalista in the use of substrata of rest.