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	???

Land gastropods

Assimineidae

Assiminea nitida (Pease, 1864) – on Pratas Island^[2]

Truncatellidae

Truncatella guerinii A. & J. B. Villa, 1841 – on Pratas Island^[2]
Truncatella pfeifferi Martens, 1860 – on Pratas Island^[2]

Ellobiidae

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

Veronicellidae

Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821) – on Pratas Island^[2]

Clausiliidae

Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) antuensis chichiensis Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni yucola Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) longiplicata Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Thaumatoptyx costellata Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Thaumatoptyx gonyptyx lacuphila Nordsieck, 2005^[3]
Thaumatoptyx uraniscoptyx diploptyx Nordsieck, 2005^[3]

Pupillidae

Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852) – on Pratas Island^[2]
- Gastrocopta pediculus ovatula (Moellendorff, 1890)^[2]
Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) – on Pratas Island^[2]

Vertiginidae

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

Succineidae

Succinea erythrophana Ancey, 1883 – on Pratas Island^[2]

Subulinidae

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

Achatinidae

Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 – exotic species, on Pratas Island^[2]

Streptaxidae

Indoennea bicolor (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Island^[2]
Elma Adams, 1866^[4]

Helicarionidae

Liardetia yaeyamensis (Pilsbry, 1901) – on Pratas Island^[2]

Gastrodontidae

Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1816) – on Pratas Island^[2]

Philomycidae

Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008^[5]
Meghimatium bilineatum^[5]
Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901)^[5]^[6]
Meghimatium pictum^[5]
Meghimatium rugosum^[5]

Arionidae

Arion distinctus Mabille, 1868^[5]

Agriolimacidae

Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[5]

Bradybaenidae

Acusta tourannensis (Souleyet, 1842) – on Pratas Island^[2]
Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1822) – on Pratas Island^[2]
Aegista subchinensis
Aegista mackensii
Aegista impexa

Camaenidae

Camaena cicatricosa cicatricosa (Müller, 1774)^[7]

Bivalvia

Unionidae^[8]

Unio douglasiae taiwanicus (Pilsbry, 1905)
Cristaria tenuis (Gray, 1833) [=Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834)]
Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)^[9]

References

^ Hsieh B.-C., Wu S.-. & Tsai C.-L. (2013). Landsnails of Taiwan. 381 pp.
^ ^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 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Nordsieck, Hartmut (2005). "New taxa of Phaedusinae and Garnieriinae from mainland China and Taiwan (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 134(1): 23-52.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Tsai, C.-L.; Wu, S.-K. (2008). "A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 47 (6): 759–766.
^ "Gastropoda Detail". Retrieved 13 September 2010.
^ A. A. Schileyko (2011). "Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Ruthenica 21(1): 1-68.
^ 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.
^ "Bivalvia Detail". Taiwan Malacofauna Database. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 6 August 2012.

External links

Sinica.edu: Shells of Taiwan
(in Chinese) Chen W. D. & Wu S.-K. (2011). Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan. 321 pp. ISBN 978-9860279474.
Nordsieck H. (2005). "New taxa of Phaedusinae and Garnieriinae from mainland China and Taiwan (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 134: 23–52. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/134/023-052.

Non-marine molluscs (freshwater & land gastropods and freshwater bivalves) by country

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