List of non-marine molluscs 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.

Summary table of number of species
Taiwan
freshwater gastropods ??
land gastropods 329 land snails[1] + some slugs
gastropods altogether ???
bivalves ??
molluscs altogether ???

Location of Taiwan

Freshwater gastropods

Land gastropods

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

Assimineidae

Truncatellidae

Ellobiidae

  • Melampus castanea (Mühlfeld, 1818) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949 – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Melampus sculptus (Pfeiffer, 1855) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Melampus taeniolatus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Tralia malanastoma Garrett, 1873 – on Pratas Islands[2]

Veronicelloidae

  • Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821) – on Pratas Islands[2]

Pupillidae

  • Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852) – on Pratas Islands[2]
    • Gastrocopta pediculus ovatula (Moellendorff, 1890)[2]
  • Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) – on Pratas Islands[2]

Vertiginidae

  • Nesopupa yamagutii Kuroda, 1941 – on Pratas Islands, endemic to Taiwan[2]
  • Vertigo sp. – on Pratas Islands[2]

Succineidae

  • Succinea erythrophana Ancey, 1883 – on Pratas Islands[2]

Subulinidae

  • Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Lamellaxis turgidulum (Heude, 1841) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Paropeas achatinaceum (Pfeiffer, 1846) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1792) – on Pratas Islands[2]

Achatinidae

Streptaxidae

  • Indoennea bicolor (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Islands[2]
  • Elma Adams, 1866[3]

Helicarionidae

  • Liardetia yaeyamensis (Pilsbry, 1901) – on Pratas Islands[2]

Gastrodontidae

Philomycidae

Arionidae

Agriolimacidae

Bradybaenidae

Bivalvia

Unionidae[6]

  • Unio douglasiae taiwanicus (Pilsbry, 1905)
  • Cristaria tenuis (Gray, 1833) [=Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834)]
  • Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)[7]

See also

  • List of marine molluscs of Taiwan

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

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. PDF Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 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): 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  4. Tsai, C.-L.; Wu, S.-K. (2008). "A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 47 (6): 759–766.
  5. "Gastropoda Detail". Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  6. Chen, W. D.; Wu, S.-K. (2011). Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan (in Chinese and English). Pingtung: National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. 321 pp. ISBN 978-9860279474.
  7. "Bivalvia Detail". Taiwan Malacofauna Database. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
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