List of non-marine molluscs of New Zealand

Location of New Zealand

This is a list of the non-marine molluscs of the country of New Zealand. They include gastropods, such as land snails, and freshwater molluscs (or shellfish), such as freshwater mussels. Among the best known are the large native forest snails such as the Paryphanta (kauri snails) and Powelliphanta.

Systematic list

Freshwater gastropods

Latiidae - only one genus Latia is endemic to the North Island

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Hydrobiidae

Hydrocenidae

Orthalicidae

Pupinidae

Rhytididae

Charopidae, Otoconchinae

Helicidae

    Bivalvia

    Hyriidae

    See also

    References

      Further reading

      • Hutton F. W. (1880). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands.
      • Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca Wellington.
      • Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
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