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

• List of marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of the United States
• List of non-marine molluscs of Dominican Republic
• List of non-marine molluscs of the Virgin Islands

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. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.drna.gobierno.pr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
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.