List of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe

Location of Zimbabwe

The list of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe is a list of freshwater and land species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of Zimbabwe (wildlife of Zimbabwe).

Freshwater gastropods

Ampullariidae

  • Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845[1]

Viviparidae

  • Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)[2][1]

Thiaridae

  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2][1]

Planorbidae

  • Biomphalaria pfeifferi (Krauss, 1848)[1]
  • Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831)[1]
  • Bulinus globosus (Morelet, 1866)[1]
  • Bulinus tropicus (Krauss, 1848)[2][1]
  • Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
  • Ceratophallus natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)[1]
  • Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848)[1]
  • Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
  • Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879)[2]

Lymnaeidae

Land gastropods

Succineidae

Cochlicopidae

Pupillidae

  • Gibbulinopsis fontana (Krauss, 1848)[4]

Cerastidae

  • Rachis jejuna (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)[4]
  • Rhachistia sticta (E. von Martens, 1860)[4]

Achatinidae

  • Achatina connollyi Preston, 1912[4]
  • Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)[4]
  • Opeas lineare (Krauss, 1848)[4]
  • Xerocerastus burchelli (J. E. Gray, 1834)[4]

Euconulidae

  • Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)[4]

Streptaxidae

  • Tayloria gwandaensis (Preston, 1912)[4]

Urocyclidae

  • Gymnarion chirindicus E. Binder, 1981[6]
  • Gymnarion vumbae E. Binder, 1981[6]
  • Polytoxon robustum (Simroth, 1896)[7]
  • Thapsia pinguis (Krauss, 1848)[4]
  • Trochonanina thermarum (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1909)[4]

Helicidae

Freshwater bivalves

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j G. Chingwena, S. Mukaratirwa, M. Chimbari, T. K. Kristensen & H. Madsen (2004). "Population dynamics and ecology of freshwater gastropods in the highveld and lowveld regions of Zimbabwe, with emphasis on schistosome and amphistome intermediate hosts". African Zoology 39(1): 55-62.
  2. ^ a b c d e Brendonck L. et al. (2003). "The impact of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in a eutrophic subtropical impoundment (Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe). II. Species diversity". Arch. Hydrobiol. 158(3): 389-405. PDF Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Appleton C., Ghamizi M., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Lymnaea natalensis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l van Bruggen, A. C. (1967). "Miscellanous Notes on southern African Gastropoda Euthyneura (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 91: 1–34.
  5. ^ a b Gittenberger, E. (1981). "Cochlicopa lubricella and Helix aspersa as alien land snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia". Basteria. 45: 71–72.
  6. ^ a b Binder, E. (1981). "Deux espèces de Gymnarion nouvelles des collections du Natal Museum (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Urocyclidae)". Annals of the Natal Museum. 24 (2): 483–486.
  7. ^ Ben Rowson, David Herbert & E Fay Robertson (2016). "First reports of two terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata) from Southern Africa". Journal of Conchology 42(3): 11-15.


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