List of non-marine molluscs of Iraq

Location of Iraq

This is a list of non-marine molluscs of Iraq.

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

• Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby, 1844) ^[1]

Assimineidae

• Assiminea mesopotamica Glöer, Naser & Yasser, 2007 ^{[2] [3]}
• Assiminea zubairensis Glöer & Naser, 2013 ^[3]

Bithyniidae

• Bithynia hareerensis Glöer & Naser, 2008 ^[4]

Viviparidae

• Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822) ^[1]

Melanopsidae

• Melanopsis buccinoidea Olivier, 1801 ^[1]
• Melanopsis costata (Olivier, 1804) ^[1]
• Melanopsis nodosa A. Férussac, 1822 ^[1]

Thiaridae

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

Lymnaeidae

• Lymnaea auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[1]

Physidae

• Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) ^[1]

Planorbidae

• Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) ^[1]
• Gyraulus huwaizahensis Glöer & Naser, 2005 ^{[1] [5]}

Land gastropods

Orculidae

• Orculella palatalis (Pilsbry, 1922) ^[6]
• Orculella sirianocoriensis libanotica (Tristram, 1865) ^[6]

Helicidae

• Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Freshwater bivalves

• Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) ^[7]

See also

Lists of non-marine molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey
• List of non-marine molluscs of Iran
• List of non-marine molluscs of Jordan

References

1. Ali B. M. Al-Bdairi, Mohammad K. Mohammad & Hadi M. Al-Miali (2014). "Freshwater snails diversity in the middle and south regions of Iraq". Advances in Bioresearch 5(3): 166-171.
2. Glöer, P.; Naser, M.D; Yasser, A.G. (2007). "Assiminea mesopotamica n.sp. - a new species from Mesopotamia, Iraq (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Assimineidae)". Mollusca. 25 (1): 3–6.
3. Glöer, P.; Naser, M.D. (2013). "Assiminea zubairensis n. sp. - a new species from Iraq (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Assimineidae)". Journal of Conchology. 41 (3): 305–307.
4. Glöer, P.; Naser, M.D. (2008). "Bithynia hareerensis n.sp., a new Bithynia from Mesopotamia (Iraq) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Mollusca. 26 (2): 159–162.
5. Glöer, P.; Naser, M.D. (2007). "Gyraulus huwaizahensis n. sp. - a new species from Mesopotamia, Iraq (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Planorbidae)". Mollusca. 25 (2): 147–152.
6. Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 125 (1/2): 1–86.
7. Bogan, Arthur E.; Al-Fanharawi, Ali Abdulhamza; Lopes-Lima, Manuel (23 October 2021). "First record of Sinanodonta woodiana and report for freshwater bivalves from Iraq (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 46: 52–60. doi: 10.37828/em.2021.46.2 .