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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

Neritidae

Viviparidae

Ampullariidae

Valvatidae

Littorinidae

Pomatiopsidae

Amnicolidae

Hydrobiidae

Assimineidae

Thiaridae

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

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Land gastropods

An unidentified snail from Nandi Hills, India.
A sinistral snail from Torna Fort, Pune District, Maharashtra, 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][8][9][10]

Assimineidae

Hydrocenidae

Helicinidae

Achatinidae

Camaenidae

Cerastidae

Charopidae

Cyclophoridae

Pupinidae

Diplommatinidae

Endodontidae

Enidae

Staffordiidae – this family lives only in India[15]

Helicarionidae

Indrella ampulla is a large tropical snail from the Western Ghats of India.

Ariophantidae

A slug from the Western Ghats of India. The species is tentatively identified as Mariaella dussumieri, family Ariophantidae

Pupillidae

Pyramidulidae

Streptaxidae

Diapheridae

Succineidae

Subulinidae

Subulina octona

Valloniidae

Veronicellidae

Vertiginidae

Pleurodontidae

unsorted:

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See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Aravind N. A., Rajshekhar K. P. & Madhaystha N. A. Patterns of Land Snail Distribution in the Western Ghats. last change 10 October 2006, accessed 1 March 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa (file created 29 July 2010) FRESH WATER MOLLUSCAN SPECIES IN INDIA[permanent dead link]. 11 pp. accessed 31 July 2010.
  4. ^ Davis G. S. (1996). Tricula montana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  5. ^ Edmund Gittenberger, Choki Gyeltshen & Björn Stelbrink (2022). "The genus Erhaia (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Amnicolidae), with a new species from Bhutan". ZooKeys 1085: 1–9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1085.77900
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Madhyastha N. A. & Kamalesh D. Mumbrekar The land snails of Sharavathi river basin, Karnataka, India.
  9. ^ Mavinkurve R. G., Shanbhag S. P. & Madhyastha N. A. 2004. Checklist of terrestrial gastropods of Karnataka, India. Zoos Print Journal 19(11):1684–1686.
  10. ^ Terrestrial fauna of Tamil Nadu "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessed 1 March 2009.
  11. ^ a b Junn Kitt Foon & Mohammad Effendi Marzuki (2022). "A new species of Acmella (Gastropoda: Assimineidae) from Peninsular Malaysia". Folia Malacologica 30(1): 10–15.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ramakrishna, Dey A. & Mitra S. C. (PDF created 6 April 2010). "Checklist of Indian Land Mollusca"[permanent dead link]. Zoological Survey of India. accessed 30 June 2010. 65 pp.
  13. ^ a b c d e f DO Duc Sang, DO Van Nhuong (2019). "Family Cyclophoridae in Vietnam (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea): the genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810". Ruthenica 29(1): 1-53.
  14. ^ a b Junn Kitt Foon & Mohammad Effendi Marzuki (2022). "First record and description of a new Scabrina species (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Peninsular Malaysia". Folia Malacologica 1(30): 23-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.030.003
  15. ^ Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379–390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  16. ^ 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
  17. ^ Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (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 160: 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.

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