List of non-marine molluscs of Taiwan

Location of Taiwan

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

Summary table of number of species

	Taiwan
freshwater gastropods	??
land gastropods	329 land snails [1] + some slugs
gastropods altogether	???
bivalves	??
molluscs altogether	???

Land gastropods

an unidentified land snail from Taiwan

an unidentified land snail from Taiwan

an unidentified land snail from Taiwan

Subulina octona

Assimineidae

• Assiminea nitida (Pease, 1864) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Truncatellidae

• Truncatella guerinii A. & J. B. Villa, 1841 – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Truncatella pfeifferi Martens, 1860 – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Ellobiidae

• Melampus castanea (Mühlfeld, 1818) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949 – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Melampus sculptus (Pfeiffer, 1855) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Melampus taeniolatus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Tralia malanastoma Garrett, 1873 – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Veronicellidae

• Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Clausiliidae

• Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) antuensis chichiensis Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
• Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
  • Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) hemmeni yucola Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
• Hemiphaedusa (Hemizaptyx) longiplicata Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
• Thaumatoptyx costellata Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
• Thaumatoptyx gonyptyx lacuphila Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]
• Thaumatoptyx uraniscoptyx diploptyx Nordsieck, 2005 ^[3]

Pupillidae

• Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
  • Gastrocopta pediculus ovatula (Moellendorff, 1890) ^[2]
• Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Vertiginidae

• Nesopupa yamagutii Kuroda, 1941 – on Pratas Island, endemic to Taiwan ^[2]
• Vertigo sp. – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Succineidae

• Succinea erythrophana Ancey, 1883 – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Subulinidae

• Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Lamellaxis turgidulum (Heude, 1841) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Paropeas achatinaceum (Pfeiffer, 1846) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1792) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Achatinidae

• Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 – exotic species, on Pratas Island ^[2]

Streptaxidae

• Indoennea bicolor (Hutton, 1834) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Elma Adams, 1866 ^[4]

Helicarionidae

• Liardetia yaeyamensis (Pilsbry, 1901) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Gastrodontidae

• Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1816) – on Pratas Island ^[2]

Philomycidae

• Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008 ^[5]
• Meghimatium bilineatum ^[5]
• Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901) ^{[5] [6]}
• Meghimatium pictum ^[5]
• Meghimatium rugosum ^[5]

Arionidae

• Arion distinctus Mabille, 1868 ^[5]

Agriolimacidae

• Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774) ^[5]

Bradybaenidae

• Acusta tourannensis (Souleyet, 1842) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1822) – on Pratas Island ^[2]
• Aegista subchinensis
• Aegista mackensii
• Aegista impexa

Camaenidae

• Camaena cicatricosa cicatricosa (Müller, 1774) ^[7]

Bivalvia

Unionidae ^[8]

• Unio douglasiae taiwanicus (Pilsbry, 1905)
• Cristaria tenuis (Gray, 1833) [=Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834)]
• Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) ^[9]

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Taiwan

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of China
• List of non-marine molluscs of Hong Kong
• List of non-marine molluscs of the Philippines
• List of non-marine molluscs of Japan

References

1. Hsieh B.-C., Wu S.-. & Tsai C.-L. (2013). Landsnails of Taiwan. 381 pp.
2. Wu S.-P., Hwang C.-C., Huang H.-M., Chang H.-W., Lin Y.-S. & Lee P.-F. (2007). "Land Molluscan Fauna of the Dongsha Island with Twenty New Recorded Species". Taiwania52(2): 145-151. PDF Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
3. Nordsieck, Hartmut (2005). "New taxa of Phaedusinae and Garnieriinae from mainland China and Taiwan (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 134(1): 23-52.
4. Sutcharit, C.; Naggs, F.; Wade, C. M.; Fontanilla, I.; Panha, S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 160 (1): 1–16. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x .
5. Tsai, C.-L.; Wu, S.-K. (2008). "A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan" (PDF). Zoological Studies . 47 (6): 759–766.
6. "Gastropoda Detail" . Retrieved 13 September 2010.
7. A. A. Schileyko (2011). "Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Ruthenica 21(1): 1-68.
8. Chen, W. D.; Wu, S.-K. (2011). Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan (in Chinese and English). Pingtung: National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. 321 pp. ISBN   978-9860279474.
9. "Bivalvia Detail". Taiwan Malacofauna Database. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 6 August 2012.

External links

• Sinica.edu: Shells of Taiwan
• (in Chinese) Chen W. D. & Wu S.-K. (2011). Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan. 321 pp. ISBN   978-9860279474.
• Nordsieck H. (2005). "New taxa of Phaedusinae and Garnieriinae from mainland China and Taiwan (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 134: 23–52. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/134/023-052.