List of non-marine molluscs of India
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The non-marine molluscs of India are a part of the molluscan fauna of India.
There are 5070 species of marine and non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India.[1] There are 3371 species of marine molluscs in India.[2]
There are 1671 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. This includes 1488 terrestrial species in 140 genera and 183 freshwater species in 53 genera.[2]
There are a total of species of gastropods, which breaks down to ?? species of freshwater gastropods, and 1488 species of land gastropods, plus ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.
- Summary table of number of species
| India | |
|---|---|
| freshwater gastropods | ?? |
| land gastropods | 1488 (??? species of snails and ??? species of slugs) |
| gastropods altogether | ??? |
| bivalves | ?? |
| non-marine molluscs altogether | 1671 |
| non-indigenous gastropods in the wild | ? freshwater and ? land |
| non-indigenous synanthropic gastropods | ? |
| non-indigenous bivalves in the wild | ? |
| non-indigenous synanthropic bivalves | ? |
| non-indigenous molluscs altogether | ? |
Freshwater gastropods[]
- Neripteron auriculatum (Lamarck, 1816)[3]
- Neripteron violaceum (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
- Neritina pulligera (Linnaeus, 1767)[3]
- (Annandale & Prashad) – subgenus Dostia[3]
- (Recluz) – subgenus Vittina[3]
- Wood – subgenus Vittina[3]
- Neritina turrita (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
- Lesson – subgenus Vittina[3]
- (Sowerby)[3]
- (Recluz) – subgenus Clithon[3]
- (Linnaeus) – subgenus Clithon[3]
- (Sowerby) – subgenus Clithon[3]
- (Lamarck)[3]
- Septaria porcellana (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
- Angulyagra microchaetophora (Annandale, 1921)[3]
- (Benson)[3]
- Annandale & Rao[3]
- Pila globosa (Swainson, 1822) – including varieties incrassatula (Nevill) and minor (Nevill)[3]
- (Reeve)[3]
- (Gray) – including variety compacta Reeve[3]
- (Hanley)[3]
- (Lamarck)[3]
- (Reeve)[3]
- Valvata piscinalis (O. F. Müller, 1774)[3]
- Cremnoconchus syhadrensis (Blanford, 1863)[3]
- Cremnoconchus conicus Blanford, 1870 – synonym: Cremnoconchus carinatus (Layard, 1854)[3]
- Nevill[3]
- Tricula montana (Benson, 1843)[4]
- (Kuster)
- Assiminea brevicula Pfeiffer, 1854
- Gmelin
- Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[5]
- (Muller)
- Radix luteola (Lamarck, 1822)
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Land gastropods[]
An unidentified snail from Nandi Hills, India.
an unidentified gastropod from Kodachadri, southwestern India
an unidentified gastropod from India
closeup to an unidentified gastropod from India
an unidentified gastropod from India. This snail has the caudal mucous pit on its tail end.
Species of gastropods of India include:[2][7][8][9]
- (Benson)[10]
- (Benson)[10]
- (Blanford)[10]
- (Zelebor)[10]
- (Pfeiffer)[10]
- (Bourne)[10]
- (Benson)[10]
- (Pfeiffer)[10]
- Wagner[10]
- (Pfeiffer)[10]
- Achatina fulica fulica (Bowdich, 1822)
- Amphidromus
- (Pfeiffer, 1857)
- (Lamarck, 1822)[citation needed]
- (Blanford, 1861)[citation needed]
- (Gray, 1825)[citation needed]
- (Anton, 1839)[citation needed]
- (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Blanford
- (Benson, 1854)
- (Pfeiffer, 1854)[11]
- Benson, 1857[11]
- (Deshayes, 1832)
- (Benson, 1852)[11]
- (Benson, 1852)
- (Sowerby, 1850)[11]
- (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- (O.F. Müller, 1774)[11]
- (Benson, 1836)[11]
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Benson)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Benson, 1851)
- (Blanford, 1868)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Blanford, 1869)
- (Benson, 1851)
- (Sowerby)
- (Pfeiffer)
- (Blanford, 1860)
- (Blanford, 1861)
- (Sowerby, 1843)
- (G. Nevill, 1881)
- (Benson, 1851)
- (Mollendorff, 1897)
- Ditropis
- Japonia
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Benson, 1851)
- (Mollendroff, 1897)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Blanford, 1868)
- (Blanford, 1860)
- (Blanford, 1868)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Blanford, 1866)
- (Blanford, 1869)
- (Beddome, 1875)
- (Benson, 1852)
- (Blanford, 1861)
- (Gude, 1914)
- (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Ena
Staffordiidae – this family lives only in India[12]
- Staffordia daflaensis (Godwin-Austen)[10]
- Staffordia staffordi (Godwin-Austen)[10]
- Staffordia toruputuensis Godwin-Austen[10]
- (Pfeiffer, 1852)
- (Godwin-Austen, 1882)
- (Stolickzka, 1871)
- Sitala palmaria (Benson, 1864)
- (Preston, 1908)
- (Blanford, 1901)
- (Benson, 1852)
- (Blanford, 1870)
- Ariophanta interrupta (Benson, 1834)
- Nevill
- (Benson, 1852)
- (Blanford, 1880) (subgenus )
- (Deshayes, 1834) (subgenus )
- (Beck) (subgenus )
- (Ferussac)
- (Gray, 1834) (subgenus )
- (Beck, 1837) (subgenus )
- (Blanford, 1866)
- (Benson, 1848)
- (Benson, 1850)
- (Benson, 1850)
- (Blanford, 1901)
- (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- (Blanford, 1901)
- (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- (H. Adams, 1869)
- (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- (Pfeiffer)
- (Benson, 1865)
- (Blanford, 1874)
- (Benson, 1863)
- Macrochlamys indica
- (Blanford, 1866)
- (Blanford, 1904)
- (Benson, 1853)
- (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- Indrella ampulla (Benson, 1850)
A slug from the Western Ghats of India. The species is tentatively identified as Mariaella dussumieri, family Ariophantidae
- Mariaella beddomei (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
- Mariaella dussumieri (Gray, 1855)
- (Blanford, 1869)
- (Blanford, 1880)
- (Petit, 1841)
- (Blanford, 1899)
- (Blanford, 1899)
- (Blanford, 1880)
- (Blanford, 1880)
- (Blanford, 1899)
- Huttonella bicolor (Hutton)
- Ennea
- Bhosale, Thackeray & Rowson, 2021[13]
- (Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Rao, 1924
- (Subba Rao & Mitra, 1976)
- (Pfeiffer, 1849)
Subulinidae
- (Hutton, 1834)
- Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)
- (Ehrenberg, 1831)
- (Beddome, 1906)
- (Benson, 1860)
- (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- (Blanford, 1861)
- (Reeve, 1850)
- (Reeve, 1849)
- (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- (Nevill, 1881)
- (Beddome, 1906)
- (Benson, 1836)
- (Blanford, 1866)
- (Blanford, 1870)
- (Hutton)
- (Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Férussac, 1821 =? Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
- (Semper, 1885) = Semper, 1885
Vertiginidae
- (Blanford, 1875)
- (Férussac, 1821)
- (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- (Muller, 1774)
unsorted:
- [citation needed]
- Corilla
- Edouardia
- Eurychlamys
- Microcystina
- Pupoides
- Micraulax
- Pearsonia[citation needed]
- Cyclotopsis
- Thysanota
- Tortulosa
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See also[]
- List of non-marine molluscs of Pakistan
- List of non-marine molluscs of China
- List of non-marine molluscs of Nepal
- List of non-marine molluscs of Bhutan
- List of non-marine molluscs of Myanmar
- List of non-marine molluscs of Sri Lanka
- List of non-marine molluscs of Indonesia
References[]
- ^ Alfred, J.R.B. (1998) Faunal Diversity in India: An Overview: In Faunal Diversity in India, i–viii, 1–495. (Editors. Alfred, JRB, et al., 1998). ENVIS Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
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- ^ Madhyastha A. (2010). Melanoides tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 December 2010.
- ^ Liu L. et al. (2010) "The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia". Parasites & Vectors 3: 57. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-57.
- ^ Madhyastha N. A. & Kamalesh D. Mumbrekar The land snails of Sharavathi river basin, Karnataka, India.
- ^ Mavinkurve R. G., Shanbhag S. P. & Madhyastha N. A. 2004. Checklist of terrestrial gastropods of Karnataka, India. Zoos' Print Journal 19(11):1684–1686.
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- ^ Bhosale, A.; Thackeray, T.; Rowson, B. (2021). "Perrottetia rajeshgopali, a new species of Perrottetia Kobelt, 1905 (Stylommatophora: Streptaxidae) from the Western Ghats, India". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 150(1): 45-54. DOI: 10.1127/arch.moll/150/045-054
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Further reading[]
(sorted chronologically)
- Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen 1920. Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean, supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. Volume III. Taylor & Francis, London. – The volume III. include Glessula species only.
- 1908–1915. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca.
- Satyamurti S. T. 1960. Land and freshwater mollusca in the collection of the Madras Government museum. Natural History Section New Series, Vol. VI, No.4., 174 pp.
- Raut S. K. & Ghose K.C. 1984. Pestiferous land snails of India. Technical Monograph No. 11 Zool. Surv. India, 1–151.
- Subba Rao, N.V., Thakur D. K. & Mitra S. C. 1989. Mollusca (Terrestrial). Fauna of Orissa Part – II. State fauna Series: 1 Ed: Director, Zoological Survey of India P., 253–276.
- Subba Rao N.V. & Mitra S. C. 1993. Land Molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 126, 88 pp.
- H. Nesemann, S. Gopaö & K. S. Ravindra (2003) The Bivalvia of the Ganga River and adjacent stagnant water bodies in Patna (Bihar, India) with special reference on Unionacea. Acta Conchyliorum, 43 pages, include 9 tables, 31 figures.
- S. C. Mitra, A. Dey & Ramakrishna (2005) Pictorial handbook: Indian land snails . 4 + 344 pp.
- Nesemann H. & Sharma S., Sharma G., Khanal S. N., Pradhan B., Shah D. N. & Tachamo R. D. (2007) Aquatic Invertebrates of the Ganga River System, Vol. 1. (Mollusca, Annelida, Crustacea), 263 pp., 76 (12 colour) plates with 748 figures. ISBN 978-99946-2-674-8.
- Ramakrishna & A. Dey (2007) Indian Freshwater Molluscs. 399 pp., 279 color figures in text, hardcover.
External links[]
- Sahyadri: Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System. issue 20. Mollusca.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090717093156/http://www.wii.gov.in/envis/rain_forest/chapter9.htm
Categories:
- Fauna of India
- Molluscs of Asia
- Lists of fauna of India
- Lists of molluscs by country
- Freshwater molluscs