List of non-marine molluscs of Pakistan

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The non-marine molluscs of Pakistan are a part of the fauna of Pakistan. They include land and freshwater gastropods and freshwater bivalves.

Freshwater gastropods

Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck 1822)^[1]

Melanoides tuberculata (Muller, 1774)^[1]

Lymnaea acuminata f. rufescens (Gray, 1820)^[1]
Lymnaea acuminata f. chlamys (Benson, 1836)^[1]
Lymnaea auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1]
Lymnaea luteola (Lamarck, 1822)^[1]

Physa acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)^[1]
Physa gyrina (Say, 1821)^[1]

Gyraulus convexiusculus (Hutton, 1849)^[1]
Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes, 1834)^[1]

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Land gastropods

Granaria lapidaria (Hutton, 1849)^[2]^[3]

Boysia boysii (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)^[4]
Boysidia tamtouriana Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Gastrocopta avanica (Benson, 1863)^[4]
Gastrocopta huttoniana (Benson, 1849)^[4]
Gastrocopta klunzingeri (Jickeli, 1873)^[4]

Pupilla annandalei Pilsbry^[4]
Pupilla khunjerabica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Pupilla muscorum (Linnaeus, 1758)^[4]
Pupilla paraturcmenica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Pupilla satparanica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Pupilla signata (Mousson)^[4]
Pupilla turcmenia (O. Boettger)^[4]
Pupilla ziaratana Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]

Truncatellinidae

Columella nymphaepratensis Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Truncatellina ayubiana Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Truncatellina babusarica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Truncatellina callicratis (Scacchi, 1833)^[4]
Truncatellina himalayana (Benson, 1863)^[4]

Vertigo antivertigo (Draparnaud, 1801)^[4]
Vertigo nangaparbatensis Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]
Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954^[4]
Vertigo superstriata Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009^[4]

Cylindrophaedusa farooqi (Auffenberg & Fakhri, 1995)^[5]

Candaharia rutellum (Hutton, 1849)^[6]

Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[7]^[6]

Anadenus altivagus (Theobald, 1862)^[6]

Pseudiberus chitralensis (Odhner, 1963)^[8]

Freshwater bivalves

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<i>Pupilla</i> Genus of gastropods

Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.

<i>Truncatellina callicratis</i> Species of gastropod

Truncatellina callicratis is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellinidae.

Vertigo pseudosubstriata is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Kiran Afshan, Mirza Azhar Beg, Iftikhar Ahmad, M. Maqbool Ahmad & Mazhar Qayyum (2013). "Freshwater Snail Fauna of Pothwar Region, Pakistan". Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45(1): 227-233.
↑ Gittenberger E. (1973). "Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea III. Chondrininae". Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 127 :1-267.
↑ Kokshoorn, B.; Gittenberger, E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa. 2539: 1–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2539.1.1.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pokryszko B. M., Auffenberg K., Hlaváč J. Č. & Naggs F. (2009). "Pupilloidea of Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): Truncatellininae, Vertigininae, Gastrocoptinae, Pupillinae (In Part)". Annales Zoologici 59(4): 423-458. doi : 10.3161/000345409X484847.
↑ Auffenberg, K.; Fakhri, S.M.S. (1995). "A new species of land snail from Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Clausiliidae: Phaedusinae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 124 (1/2): 89–92. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/124/1995/89.
1 2 3 Wiktor, A.; Auffenberg, K. (2002). "Contribution to the knowledge of the terrestrial slugs of Pakistan". Folia Malacologica. 10 (1): 9–15. doi:10.12657/folmal.010.002.
↑ Hlaváč J. Č. (2004). "A new record of Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774) from Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Agriolimacidae)". Folia Malacologica12: 181-182.
↑ Odhner, N.H. (1963). "Cathiaca (Pseudiberus) chitralensis n.sp". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 35 (4): 151–153, pl. 15.

Further reading

Auffenberg K. (1997). "The biogeography of the land snails of Pakistan". pp. 253–275. In: Mufti S. A., Woods, C. A. & Hasan S. A. (eds). Biodiversity of Pakistan. Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad and Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.

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