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List of non-marine molluscs of Taiwan

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List of non-marine molluscs of Taiwan

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Location of Taiwan

The non-marine mollusks of Taiwan are a part of the molluscan fauna of Taiwan. A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Taiwan. There are ?? species of gastropods (?? species of freshwater gastropods, ?? species of land gastropods) and ?? species of freshwater bivalves living in the wild.-- ;Summary table of number of species

Taiwan
freshwater gastropods
land gastropods
gastropods altogether
bivalves
molluscs altogether

Land gastropods

an unidentified land snail from Taiwan
an unidentified land snail from Taiwan
an unidentified land snail from Taiwan

Assimineidae

  • Assiminea nitida (Pease, 1864) – on Pratas Island

Truncatellidae

  • Truncatella guerinii A. & J. B. Villa, 1841 – on Pratas Island
  • Truncatella pfeifferi Martens, 1860 – on Pratas Island

Ellobiidae

  • Melampus castanea (Mühlfeld, 1818) – on Pratas Island
  • Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949 – on Pratas Island
  • Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791) – on Pratas Island
  • Melampus sculptus (Pfeiffer, 1855) – on Pratas Island
  • Melampus taeniolatus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854) – on Pratas Island
  • Tralia malanastoma Garrett, 1873 – on Pratas Island

Veronicellidae

  • Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821) – on Pratas Island

Clausiliidae

  • Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) antuensis chichiensis Nordsieck, 2005
  • Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni Nordsieck, 2005
    • Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni yucola Nordsieck, 2005
  • Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) longiplicata Nordsieck, 2005
  • Thaumatoptyx costellata Nordsieck, 2005
  • Thaumatoptyx gonyptyx lacuphila Nordsieck, 2005
  • Thaumatoptyx uraniscoptyx diploptyx Nordsieck, 2005

Pupillidae

  • Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852) – on Pratas Island
    • Gastrocopta pediculus ovatula (Moellendorff, 1890)
  • Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) – on Pratas Island

Vertiginidae

  • Nesopupa yamagutii Kuroda, 1941 – on Pratas Island, endemic to Taiwan
  • Vertigo sp. – on Pratas Island

Succineidae

  • Succinea erythrophana Ancey, 1883 – on Pratas Island

Subulinidae

  • Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Island
  • Lamellaxis turgidulum (Heude, 1841) – on Pratas Island
  • Paropeas achatinaceum (Pfeiffer, 1846) – on Pratas Island
  • Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1792) – on Pratas Island

Achatinidae

  • Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 – exotic species, on Pratas Island

Streptaxidae

  • Indoennea bicolor (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Island
  • Elma Adams, 1866

Helicarionidae

  • Liardetia yaeyamensis (Pilsbry, 1901) – on Pratas Island

Gastrodontidae

  • Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1816) – on Pratas Island

Philomycidae

  • Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008
  • Meghimatium bilineatum
  • Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901)
  • Meghimatium pictum
  • Meghimatium rugosum

Arionidae

  • Arion distinctus Mabille, 1868

Agriolimacidae

  • Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Bradybaenidae

  • Acusta tourannensis (Souleyet, 1842) – on Pratas Island
  • Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1822) – on Pratas Island
  • Aegista subchinensis
  • Aegista mackensii
  • Aegista impexa

Camaenidae

  • Camaena cicatricosa cicatricosa (Müller, 1774)A. A. Schileyko (2011). "Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Ruthenica 21(1): 1-68.

Bivalvia

Unionidae

  • Unio douglasiae taiwanicus (Pilsbry, 1905)
  • Cristaria tenuis (Gray, 1833) [=Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834)]
  • Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)

References

References

  1. Hsieh B.-C., Wu S.-. & Tsai C.-L. (2013). ''Landsnails of Taiwan''. 381 pp.
  2. Wu S.-P., Hwang C.-C., Huang H.-M., Chang H.-W., Lin Y.-S. & Lee P.-F. (2007). "Land Molluscan Fauna of the Dongsha Island with Twenty New Recorded Species". ''Taiwania'' '''52'''(2): 145-151. [http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/pdf/tai.2007.52.2.145.pdf PDF] {{webarchive. link. (18 July 2011 .)
  3. Nordsieck, Hartmut (2005). "New taxa of Phaedusinae and Garnieriinae from mainland China and Taiwan (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". [[Archiv für Molluskenkunde]] 134(1): 23-52.
  4. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". [[Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society]].
  5. (2008). "A new ''Meghimatium'' slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan". [[Zoological Studies]].
  6. "Gastropoda Detail".
  7. "Bivalvia Detail". Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica.
  8. Chen, W. D.. (2011). "Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan". National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium.
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