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List of non-marine molluscs of Kenya

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List of non-marine molluscs of Kenya

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Location of Kenya
topography of Kenya

The non-marine molluscs of Kenya are a part of the molluscan fauna of Kenya (wildlife of Kenya).

A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Kenya.

There are 514 species of land snails in Kenya. There are ?? non-indigenous species of gastropods (?? freshwater and ?? land species) and ?? species of bivalves in the wild in Egypt. This is altogether ?? freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs. -- ;Summary table of number of species (Summary table is based on species counted in this list and include also those ones with question marks)

Kenya
freshwater gastropods
land gastropods
gastropods altogether
bivalves
molluscs altogether
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild
non-indigenous hot-house alien gastropods
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild
non-indigenous hot-house alien bivalves
non-indigenous molluscs altogether

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Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Lymnaeidae

  • Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Kenya include:

Cyclophoridae

  • Elgonocyclus koptaweliensis (Germain, 1934)

Maizaniidae

  • Maizania elatior (Martens, 1892)
  • Maizania volkensi (Martens, 1895)

Veronicellidae

  • Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)

Succineidae

  • Quickia concisa (Morelet, 1849)

Valloniidae

  • Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)

Vertiginidae

  • Nesopupa (Afripupa) bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873)
  • Truncatellina ninagongensis (Pilsbry, 1935)
  • Truncatellina pygmaeorum (Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933)

Cerastidae

  • Conulinus rutshuruensis Pilsbry, 1919
  • Conulinus ugandae – subspecies: Conulinus ugandae costatus Verdcourt, 1985
  • Edouardia metula (Martens, 1895)
  • Rhachidina braunsi (Martens, 1869)

Achatinidae

  • Limicolaria martensiana (E. A. Smith, 1880)
  • Limicolaria saturata E. A. Smith, 1895

Ferussaciidae

  • Cecilioides (Cecilioides) tribulationis (Preston, 1911)
  • Cecilioides (Geostilbia) callipeplum (Connolly, 1923)

Micractaeonidae

  • Micractaeon koptawelilensis (Germain, 1934)

Subulinidae

  • Curvella babaulti Germain, 1923
  • Euonyma curtissima Verdcourt
  • Ischnoglessula elegans (Martens, 1895)
  • Nothapalus paucispira (Martens, 1892)
  • Nothapalus ugandanus Connolly, 1923
  • Oreohomorus nitidus (Martens, 1897)
  • Pseudopeas curvelliforme Pilsbry, 1919
  • Pseudopeas elgonense Connolly, 1923
  • Subulina entebbana Pollonera, 1907
  • Subulona clara (Pilsbry, 1919)

Streptaxidae

  • Gulella (Molarella) ugandensis (E. A. Smith, 1901)
  • Gulella (Silvigulella) osborni Pilsbry, 1919
  • Gulella (Wilmattina) disseminata (Preston, 1913)
  • Stenomarconia Germain, 1934

Punctidae

  • Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)
  • Punctum pallidum Connolly, 1922
  • Punctum ugandanum (E. A. Smith, 1903)

Charopidae

  • Afrodonta kempi (Connolly, 1925)
  • Prositala butumbiana (Martens, 1895)
  • Trachycystis iredalei Preston, 1912
  • Trachycystis lamellifera (E. A. Smith, 1903)

Helicarionidae

  • Kaliella barrakporensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Kaliella iredalei Preston, 1912

Euconulidae

  • Afroconulus iredalei (Preston, 1912)
  • Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)
  • Afropunctum seminium (Morelet, 1873)

Urocyclidae

  • Atoxon pallens Simroth, 1895
  • Chlamydarion quentini Verdcourt, 2004
  • Gymnarion aloysiisabaudiae (Pollonera, 1906)
  • Trichotoxon heynemanni Simroth, 1888
  • Trochozonites (Teleozonites) adansoniae (Morelet, 1848)
  • Trochozonites (Zonitotrochus) medjensis Pilsbry, 1919

Freshwater bivalves

Sphaeriidae

  • Pisidium artifex Kuiper, 1960

References

References

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  2. Madhyastha A. (2010). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/155675/0 ''Melanoides tuberculatus'']. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 December 2010.
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