Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Samples of leaf litter were collected from 22 woodland sites throughout Prince Edward Island, Canada. Eighty-two specimens belonging to 15 species of litter-dwelling land snails were recovered from 20 of the 22 samples. One-third of the species—<jats:italic>Carychium exile</jats:italic> H.C. Lea, 1842, <jats:italic>Helicodiscus shimeki</jats:italic> Hubricht, 1982, <jats:italic>Strobilops labyrinthicus</jats:italic> (Say, 1817), <jats:italic>Perpolita binneyana</jats:italic> (Morse, 1864), and <jats:italic>Striatura ferrea</jats:italic> Morse, 1864—were previously undocumented in the literature as occurring in PEI. Leaf-litter sampling, even in smaller quantities, is an effective method for finding the often-neglected terrestrial mollusc fauna, which is composed largely of minute species.</jats:p>