There are 559 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in Colombia.[1]
There are a total of??? species of gastropods, which breaks down to?? species of freshwater gastropods, and??? species of land gastropods in 82 genera,[2][3][4] plus?? species of bivalves living in the wild.
There are 20 non-indigenous species of gastropods (? freshwater and 20 land species: 13 snails and 7 slugs)[5] and? species of bivalves in the wild in Colombia. This is a total of? freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.
The non-marine mollusc fauna of Colombia is not fully surveyed yet. There are still 6 departments of Colombia, especially in the southwest, from which there are no records of land gastropods yet (as of 2008).[2][needs update]
Achatinidae is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Stylommatophora is an order of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs. Stylommatophorans lack an operculum, but some close their shell apertures with temporary "operculum" (epiphragm) made of calcified mucus. They have two pairs of retractile tentacles, the upper pair of which bears eyes on the tentacle tips. All stylommatophorans are hermaphrodites.
Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.
Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.
Subulininae is a subfamily of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.
Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda, as revised by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997, is an older taxonomy of the class Gastropoda, the class of molluscs consisting of all snails and slugs. The full name of the work in which this taxonomy was published is Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters.
References
1 2 Linares E. L. & Vera M. L. (2012). Cátalogo de los moluscos continentales de Colombia. Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, 350 pp.
1 2 Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A. P. (2007). "Review of the genus Rhodea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Subulinidae), with description of two new species from Colombia". Basteria71(1-3): 13-28. abstract.
Götting K-J. (1978). Lista preliminar de los caracoles terrestres de la region septentrional de Colombia. Vol.10. Marine Research Institute of Point Betín. pp.101–110.
Simroth H. (1914). "Beitrag zur Kentniss der Nacktschnecken Columbiens zugleich eine Uebersicht über die neotropische Nacktschnecken-Fauna überhaupt". Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel. 5: 270–341.
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