List of non-marine molluscs of Egypt

Location of Egypt

topography of Egypt

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

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

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

• Theodoxus niloticus (Reeve, 1856) ^{[1] [2]}

Viviparidae

• Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) ^{[1] [2]}

Ampullariidae

• Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804) ^{[1] [2]}
• Pila ovata (Olivier, 1804) ^[1]

Valvatidae

• Valvata nilotica Jickeli, 1874 ^[1]

Hydrobiidae

• Hydrobia musaensis Frauenfeld, 1855 ^[1]
• Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) ^[1]

Bithyniidae

• Gabbiella senaariensis (Küster, 1852) ^{[1] [2]}

Melanopsidae

• Melanopsis praemorsa (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[1]

Potamididae

• Potamides conicus (de Blainville, 1829) ^[1]

Physidae

• Haitia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) ^{[1] [2]}

Thiaridae

• Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804) ^{[3] [1] [2]}
• Cleopatra ferruginea (Lea & Lea, 1850)
• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) ^{[4] [1] [2]}

Planorbidae

• Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826) ^[1]
• Biomphalaria alexandrina (Ehrenberg, 1831) ^{[1] [2]}
• hybrid Biomphalaria glabrata × Biomphalaria alexandrina ^[5]
• Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818) ^[1]
• Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831) ^[1]
• Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) ^{[1] [2]}
• Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848) ^[1]
• Gyraulus ehrenbergi (Beck, 1837) ^{[1] [2]}
• Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879) ^{[1] [2]}
• Planorbis planorbis (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[1]
• Segmentorbis angustus (Jickeli, 1874) ^[1]

Lymnaeidae

• Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774) ^[1]
• Galba schirazensis (Küster, 1863) ^[1]
• Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[1]
• Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) ^[1]
• Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848) ^{[6] [1] [2]}

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Egypt include:

Succineidae

• Succinea cleopatra Pallary, 1909 ^[2]

Parmacellidae

• Parmacella festae Gambetta, 1925 - northern Egypt ^[7]
• Parmacella olivieri Cuvier, 1804 - northern Egypt ^[8]

Subulinidae

• Rumina decollata (Linnaeus, 1758) - non-indigenous ^[9]
• Rumina saharica Pallary, 1901 ^[10]

Cochlicellidae

• Cochlicella acuta (Muller, 1774) ^{[11] [10]}

Ariophantidae

• Macrochlamys indica Benson, 1832 ^[11]

Shells of Sphincterochila boissieri

Sphincterochilidae

• Sphincterochila boissieri (Charpentier, 1847) ^[11]

Pupillidae

• Pupoides coenopictus (Hutton, 1834) ^[12]

Hygromiidae

• Monacha arbustorum ^[11]
• Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803) ^[11]
• Monacha obstructa (Pfeiffer, 1842) ^[11]
• Xerocrassa tanousi (Westerlund) ^[10]
• Xerocrassa tuberculosa (Conrad, 1852) ^[10]
• Xeropicta krynickii (Krynicki, 1833) ^[10]
• Xeropicta vestalis (Pfeiffer, 1841) ^[11]

Helicidae

• Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) ^[11]
• Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) ^{[11] [10]}
• Eremina desertorum (Forskål, 1775) ^[11] - image (plate 95, figure 59) ^[10]
• Eremina ehrenbergi (Roth, 1839) ^[11]
• Helix pronuba Westerlund, 1879 ^[10]
• Theba pisana (Muller, 1774) ^{[11] [10]}

Hothouse aliens

"Hothouse aliens" in Egypt include:

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Israel, Wildlife of Israel
• List of non-marine molluscs of Libya, Wildlife of Libya
• List of non-marine molluscs of Sudan, Wildlife of Sudan

References

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2. Mohamed A Hussein, Ahmad H Obuid-Allah, Amal A Mahmoud & Heba M Fangary (2016). "Population dynamics of freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) at Qena Governorate, upper Egypt Egyptian". Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology 3(1): 11-22.
3. Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (January) 2006. Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata) Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Arab J. Biotech., Vol. 9, No. (1) Jan. (2006): 17-26.
4. Madhyastha A. (2010). Melanoides tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 December 2010.
5. Yousif, F.; Ibrahim, A.; Abdel Kader, A.; El-Bardicy, S. (1998). "Invasion of the Nile Valley in Egypt by a hybrid of Biomphalaria glabrata and Biomphalaria alexandrina, snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni". Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 28 (2): 569–582. PMID   9707685.
6. 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>. Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
7. "Species summary for Parmacella festae". AnimalBase, last modified 7 June 2008, accessed 1 September 2010.
8. "Species summary for Parmacella olivieri". AnimalBase, last modified 7 June 2008, accessed 1 September 2010.
9. Mienis H. K. 2003. A new colony of Rumina saharica discovered in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 11-12.
10. Reham Fathey Ali (2017). "Contribution to the malacofauna of the north coast of Egypt". Folia Malacologica 25(2): 125-142. DOI:https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.025.011
11. Commonwealth of Australia. (April 2002) "Citrus Imports from the Arab Republic of Egypt. A Review Under Existing Import Conditions for Citrus from Israel" Archived 9 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine . Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia. Caption: Gastropods, p. 12 and Appendix 2.
12. Reham Fathey Ali & Bernhard Hausdorf (2017). "First land snail records from Gebel Elba in southeastern Egypt-at the border between the Palearctic and Ethiopian regions". Check List 13(1): 2038. doi:https://doi.org/10.15560/13.1.2038