List of non-marine molluscs of Benin

Location of Benin

topography of Benin

The non-marine molluscs of Benin are a part of the molluscan fauna of Benin (wildlife of Benin).

A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Benin.

Freshwater gastropods

Planorbidae

• Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826) ^[1]
• Biomphalaria camerunensis (C. R. Boettger, 1941) ^[2]
• Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831) ^[3]
• Bulinus globosus (Morelet, 1866) ^[4]
• Bulinus senegalensis Müller, 1781 ^[5]
• Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848) ^[6]
• Segmentorbis kanisaensis (Preston, 1914) ^[7]

Paludomidae

• Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804) ^[8]

Thiaridae

• Pachymelania aurita (Müller, 1774) ^[9]
• Pachymelania byronensis (Wood, 1828) ^[10]
• Pachymelania fusca (Gmelin, 1791) ^[11]

Pachychilidae

• Potadoma freethi (Gray, 1831) ^[12]
• Potadoma moerchi (Reeve, 1859) ^[13]

Potamididae

• Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – in brackish water ^[14]

Ampullariidae

• Lanistes libycus (Morelet, 1848) ^[15]

Hydrobiidae

• Hydrobia lineata Binder, 1957 ^[16]
• Potamopyrgus ciliatus (Gould, 1850) ^[17]

Neritidae

• Neritina oweniana (Wood, 1828) ^[18]
• Neritina rubricata Morelet, 1858 ^[19]

Lymnaeidae

• Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848) ^[20]

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Cameroon include:

Freshwater bivalves

Etheria elliptica is the only freshwater oyster occurring in Africa. ^[21]

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Benin

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Togo, Wildlife of Togo
• List of non-marine molluscs of Nigeria, Wildlife of Nigeria
• List of non-marine molluscs of Burkina Faso, Wildlife of Burkina Faso
• List of non-marine molluscs of Niger, Wildlife of Niger

References

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