Regularities of Vertical Distribution of Landscaped Mollusks of the Northwestern Pamir-Alay Mountain System (By the Example of the Turkestan Range)

Abstract

The paper discusses the vertical distribution of terrestrial mollusks in the North-Western part of the Pamir-Alai mountain system using the example of the Turkestan ridge, which is unevenly distributed over belts and biotopes. As a result of studies of the malacofauna of the Turkestan ridge, regularities have been revealed that are inherent in the formation, distribution and interpenetration of faunas, which are characteristic, perhaps, not only of the studied ridge, but in general for the Pamir-Alai mountain systems.