List of non-marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

Location of Puerto Rico

The non-marine mollusks of Puerto Rico are a part of the molluscan fauna of Puerto Rico. A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Puerto Rico.

Robert James Shuttleworth has described 3 genera and 25 species from Puerto Rico as new in 1854. ^{[1] [2]}

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

• Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) ^[3]

Land gastropods

Amphibulimidae

• genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 is endemic to Puerto Rico ^[4]
  • Gaeotis albopunctulata
  • Gaeotis nigrolineata
  • Gaeotis flavolineata
  • Gaeotis malleata

Ellobiidae

• Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822 ^[5]
• Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[5]
• Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856 ^[5]
• Melampus monile (Bruguiére, 1789) ^[5]

Sagdidae

• Polydontes acutangula Burrow, 1815 ^[6]

Succineidae

• Succinea approximans Shuttleworth, 1854 ^[1]

Veronicellidae

• Diplosolenodes occidentalis (Guilding, 1851) ^[5]
• Leidyula floridana (Leidy, 1851) ^[5]
• Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer, 1868) ^[5]
• Veronicella cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1840) ^[5]
• Veronicella portoricensis (Semper, 1885) ^[7]
• Veronicella tenax (Baker, 1931) ^[5]

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of the United States

References

1. Shuttleworth R. J. (1854). "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken der Insel Portorico". Mitteilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern Nr. 310-330: 33–56.
2. "Taxa described as new in Shuttleworth, R. J. 1854 (n = 28)". AnimalBase, accessed 4 January 2011.
3. Chaniotis B. N., Butler J. M., Ferguson F. F. & Jobin W. R. (1980). "Bionomics of Tarebia granifera (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Puerto Rico, an Asian vector of Paragonimiasis westermani". Caribbean Journal of Science 16: 81-89. PDF Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
4. Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Notes on the Genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae)". Netherlands Journal of Zoology 24(3): 236-252. doi : 10.1163/002829674X00057. PDF Archived 7 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine .
5. www.drna.gobierno.pr https://web.archive.org/web/20110926222204/http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/tecnicas/molusc05.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Burrow, E.I. (1815). Elements of conchology, according to the Linnæan system, illustrated by 28 plates, drawn from nature. London, R. & A. Taylor, xix + 246 pp.
7. (in Spanish) Aguayo C. G. (1965). "Sobre el status de Veronicella portoricensis (Mollusca Pulmonata)". Caribbean Journal of Science 5(1-2): 25-28. PDF Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine .

Further reading

• Grana F. A. (2007). "Nomenclatura de los organismos acuáticos y marinos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes. Vol. 6: Moluscos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes, parte 5". PDF.
• Harry H. W. (1964). "The foreign freshwater snails now established in Puerto Rico" (abstract). American Malac. Union. An. Rep.1964: 4–5.
• Gundlach J. (1883). Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña [Notes for Puerto-Rican fauna]. Memorias de Historia Natural4: 5-58; 5: 441–484.
• van der Schalie H. (1948). "The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 70: 134 pp. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56315 PDF.
• Richards C. S. (1964). "Puerto Rican species of Tropicorbis and Drepanotrema . Comparison with Australorbis glabratus and other Planorbids". Malacologia 2(1): 105–129.