The non-marine molluscs of Vietnam are a part of the molluscan fauna of Vietnam (wildlife of Vietnam). A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Vietnam.
There are good reasons to suppose that Vietnam, with a surface of 332,000 km2, a large variety of habitats, and many different limestone 'islands' that differ from each other in faunal composition, [1] will have a rich diversity of terrestrial molluscs. [2] Numerous non-marine mollusc species, including more than 850 species of land gastropods, [3] have been described from the country but many others still await discovery and description. [2]
Freshwater gastropods in Vietnam include:
Potamididae (brackish water snails)
Iravadiidae (marine/brackish)
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Land gastropods in Vietnam include:
Streptaxidae - 39 species of Streptaxidae are known from Vietnam [22]
Plectopylidae - 16 species are known from Vietnam [25]
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Freshwater bivalves in Vietnam include:
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
Cyclophorus is a genus of operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.
Plectopylidae is a taxonomic family of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
Gudeodiscus giardi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.
Gudeodiscus phlyarius is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.
Trachia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.
Garnieria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Garnieriini of the subfamily Garnieriinae in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
Gudeodiscus is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Plectopylidae.
Oospira is a genus of terrestrial gastropods belonging to the subfamily Phaedusinae of the family Clausiliidae.
Phaedusa is a genus of terrestrial gastropods belonging to the subfamily Phaedusinae of the family Clausiliidae.
Trichochloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Camaeninae of the family Camaenidae.
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