List of non-marine molluscs of Nepal

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The non-marine molluscs of Nepal are a complete molluscan fauna of Nepal (wildlife of Nepal, environment of Nepal), because Nepal is landlocked country.

Contents

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

Summary table of number of species

(Summary table is based on species counted in this list and include also those ones with question marks)

Nepal
freshwater gastropods>10
land gastropods138 species [1]
gastropods altogether ???
bivalves>4
molluscs altogether???
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild ?? freshwater and ?? land
non-indigenous hot-house alien gastropods ?
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild ?
non-indigenous hot-house alien bivalves ?
non-indigenous molluscs altogether ?

Land slug Limax seticus lives in altitudes 4,700–4,800 m a.s.l. in Nepal. It is the highest locality where occurrence of land slugs was recorded. [2]

Freshwater gastropods

Freshwater gastropods in Nepal include:

Amnicolidae

Viviparidae

Ampullariidae

Thiaridae

Pachychilidae

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Nepal include:

Alycaeidae

Cyclophoridae

Diplommatinidae

Pupinidae

Gastrocoptidae

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Pyramidula kuznetsovi

Pyramidulidae

Valloniidae

Limacidae

Ariophantidae

Achatinidae

Plectopylidae

Anadenidae

Freshwater bivalves

Unionidae

Amblemidae

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Budha P., Naggs F. & Backeljau T. (2015). "Annotated Checklist of the Terrestrial Gastropods of Nepal". ZooKeys 492: 1-48. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.492.9175 .
  2. 1 2 Wiktor A. & Bössneck U. (2004). "Limax (Limax) seticus n. sp. from high mountains in Nepal (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Limacidae)". Folia Malacologica 12(4): 183–187. doi : 10.12657/folmal.012.017.
  3. 1 2 3 Edmund Gittenberger, Choki Gyeltshen & Björn Stelbrink (2022). "The genus Erhaia (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Amnicolidae), with a new species from Bhutan". ZooKeys 1085: 1–9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1085.77900
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Surana R., Subba B. R. & Limbu K. P. (2004). "Report of Molluscs from Chimdi lake (Birju Tal), Sunsari district, Eastern Nepal". Our Nature2(1). doi : 10.3126/on.v2i1.325.
  5. ↑ Junn Kitt Foon & Mohammad Effendi Marzuki (2022). "First record and description of a new Scabrina species (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Peninsular Malaysia". Folia Malacologica 1(30): 23-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.030.003
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Budha, Prem B.; Naggs, Fred; Backeljau, Thierry (21 July 2017). "The genus Diplommatina Benson, 1849 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Diplommatinidae) in Nepal, with the description of seven new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (337). doi: 10.5852/ejt.2017.337 . hdl: 10067/1452050151162165141 .
  7. ↑ Walther, Frank; Hausdorf, Bernhard (23 January 2020). "Diplommatina boessnecki n. sp. from Nepal (Gastropoda: Diplommatinidae)". Zootaxa. 4728 (3): 398–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4728.3.11. PMID   32230570. S2CID   214212464.
  8. ↑ Meng, Stefan; Bößneck, Ulrich (17 December 2018). "Gastrocopta armigerella (Reinhardt, 1877) and Gastrocopta theeli (Westerlund, 1877) in western Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, and their further occurrence in Asia (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupilloidea)". ZooKeys (807): 1–11. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.807.29113 . PMC   6305356 . PMID   30595650.
  9. ↑ Schileyko A. A. & Balashov I. A. (2012). "Pyramidula kuznetsovi sp. nov. a new species of land molluscs from Nepal (Pulmonata, Pyramidulidae)". Ruthenica22(1): 41–45. PDF.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Gerber, J.; Bößneck, U. (2009). "The genus Vallonia in Nepal (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Valloniidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 138 (1): 43–52. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/138/043-052.
  11. ↑ A. A. Schileyko (2011). "Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Ruthenica 21(1): 1-68.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Budha, Prem B.; Naggs, Fred; Backeljau, Thierry (23 May 2017). "Conchological differentiation and genital anatomy of Nepalese Glessulinae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Subulinidae), with descriptions of six new species". ZooKeys (675): 129–156. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.675.13252 . PMC   5523889 . PMID   28769682.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Páll-Gergely, Barna; Budha, Prem; Naggs, Fred; Backeljau, Thierry; Asami, Takahiro (26 October 2015). "Review of the genus Endothyrella Zilch, 1960 with description of five new species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae)". ZooKeys (529): 1–70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.529.6139 . PMC   4668899 . PMID   26692792.
  14. 1 2 Wiktor, A. (2001). "A review of Anadenidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), with a description of a new species". Folia Malacologica. 9 (1): 3–26. doi: 10.12657/folmal.009.002 .
  15. ↑ Kuzminykh, A.A.; Schileyko, A.A. (2005). "Slugs of the family Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with descriptions of two new subgenera and three new species". Ruthenica. 15 (2): 109–118.
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