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List of non-marine molluscs of Mexico

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Location of Mexico

The non-marine molluscs of Mexico are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Mexico. A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Mexico.

There are about 1,178 species and subspecies of terrestrial gastropods in the Mexico.

Summary table of number of species:
Numbers of molluscs by habitat Number of species
Freshwater gastropods ?
Land gastropods 1,178 species and subspecies
Total number of non-marine gastropods over 1200
Freshwater bivalves ?
Total number of non-marine molluscs ?

There are not enough records of terrestrial gastropods from states of Aguascalientes and Tlaxcala.

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

Ampullariidae

Viviparidae

Pachychilidae

Pleuroceridae

Assimineidae

Cochliopidae

Hydrobiidae

Lithoglyphidae

Valvatidae

Lymnaeidae

Physidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

an unidentified slug from Mexico
probably Drymaeus serperastrus from Mexico
an unidentified land snail from Mexico

Helicinidae - 72 species

Veronicellidae

Subulinidae

Urocoptidae - 265 species

Spiraxidae - 246 species

Orthalicidae/Bulimulinae = Bulimulidae - 140 species

Agriolimacidae

Pupillidae - 47 species

Polygyridae - 65 species

Xanthonychidae - 58 species

Echinichidae

Humboldtianidae - 49 species

Bivalvia

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See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References

  1. ^ Naranjo-García E. & Fahy N. E. (2010). "The Lesser Families of Mexican Terrestrial Molluscs". American Malacological Bulletin 28(1-2): 59-80. doi:10.4003/006.028.0222.
  2. ^ Alexander Czaja, Iris Gabriela Meza-Sánchez, José Luis Estrada-Rodríguez, Ulises Romero-Méndez, Jorge Sáenz-Mata, Verónica Ávila-Rodríguez, Jorge Luis Becerra-López, Josué Raymundo Estrada-Arellano, Gabriel Fernando Cardoza-Martínez, David Ramiro Aguillón-Gutiérrez, Diana Gabriela Cordero-Torres, Alan P. Covich (2020). "The freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Mexico: updated checklist, endemicity hotspots, threats and conservation status". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 91: 1-22. https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.2909
  3. ^ Naranjo-García E., Thomé J. W. & Castillejo J. (2007). "A review of the Veronicellidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Soleolifera). Revisión de los Veronicellidae de México (Gastropoda: Soleolifera)". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 78: 41-50."
  4. ^ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Victoria Araiza Gómez, Edna Naranjo-García & Gerardo Zúñiga (2017). "The Exotic Slugs of the Genus Deroceras (Agriolimacidae) in Mexico: Morphological and Molecular Characterization, and New Data on Their Distribution". American Malacological Bulletin 35(2): 126-133. DOI: 10.4003/006.035.0205
  6. Naranjo-García, Edna; Polaco, Oscar J.; Pearce, Timothy A. (2000). "A new genus and species of semi-slug from southern Chiapas, Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 128(1-2): 153-161.
  7. ^ Thompson, F. G.; Naranjo-García, E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)" (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 141 (2): 197–208. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208.

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