List of non-marine molluscs of Mexico

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The non-marine molluscs of Mexico are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Mexico. A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Mexico.

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There are about 1,178 species and subspecies of terrestrial gastropods in the Mexico. [1]

Summary table of number of species:
Numbers of molluscs by habitatNumber of species
Freshwater gastropods ?
Land gastropods1,178 species and subspecies [1]
Total number of non-marine gastropodsover 1200
Freshwater bivalves ?
Total number of non-marine molluscs?

There are not enough records of terrestrial gastropods from states of Aguascalientes and Tlaxcala. [1]

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

Ampullariidae

Viviparidae

Pachychilidae

Pleuroceridae

Assimineidae

Cochliopidae

Hydrobiidae

Lithoglyphidae

Valvatidae

Lymnaeidae

Physidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

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an unidentified slug from Mexico
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probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Mexico
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an unidentified land snail from Mexico

Helicinidae - 72 species [1]

Veronicellidae

Subulinidae

Urocoptidae - 265 species [1]

Spiraxidae - 246 species [1]

Orthalicidae/Bulimulinae = Bulimulidae - 140 species [1]

Agriolimacidae

Pupillidae - 47 species [1]

Polygyridae - 65 species [1]

Xanthonychidae - 58 species [1]

Echinichidae

Humboldtianidae - 49 species [1]

Bivalvia

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Naranjo-García E. & Fahy N. E. (2010). "The Lesser Families of Mexican Terrestrial Molluscs". American Malacological Bulletin 28(1-2): 59-80. doi : 10.4003/006.028.0222.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 Alexander Czaja, Iris Gabriela Meza-Sánchez, José Luis Estrada-Rodríguez, Ulises Romero-Méndez, Jorge Sáenz-Mata, Verónica Ávila-Rodríguez, Jorge Luis Becerra-López, Josué Raymundo Estrada-Arellano, Gabriel Fernando Cardoza-Martínez, David Ramiro Aguillón-Gutiérrez, Diana Gabriela Cordero-Torres, Alan P. Covich (2020). "The freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Mexico: updated checklist, endemicity hotspots, threats and conservation status". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 91: 1-22. https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.2909
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Naranjo-García E., Thomé J. W. & Castillejo J. (2007). "A review of the Veronicellidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Soleolifera). Revisión de los Veronicellidae de México (Gastropoda: Soleolifera)". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 78: 41-50."
  4. 1 2 Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 3 Victoria Araiza Gómez, Edna Naranjo-García & Gerardo Zúñiga (2017). "The Exotic Slugs of the Genus Deroceras (Agriolimacidae) in Mexico: Morphological and Molecular Characterization, and New Data on Their Distribution". American Malacological Bulletin 35(2): 126-133. DOI: 10.4003/006.035.0205
  6. ↑ Naranjo-García, Edna; Polaco, Oscar J.; Pearce, Timothy A. (2000). "A new genus and species of semi-slug from southern Chiapas, Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 128(1-2): 153-161.
  7. 1 2 3 Thompson, F. G.; Naranjo-García, E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)" (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde . 141 (2): 197–208. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208.

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