List of non-marine molluscs of Tanzania

Location of Tanzania
topography of Tanzania

The non-marine molluscs of Tanzania are a part of the molluscan fauna of Tanzania (wildlife of Tanzania).

A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Tanzania.

There are 417 species of land snails in Tanzania.[1]

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]

Lymnaeidae

  • Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)[3]

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Tanzania include:

Assimineidae - otherwise marine or salt marsh family, the terrestrial assimineid occur in Tanzania[4]

  • "Assiminea" aurifera Preston, 1912 - previously Assimania aurifera[4]

Cyclophoridae

  • Cyathopoma azaniense Verdcourt, 1978[4]
  • Cyathopoma pembense Rowson, 2010 - endemic to Pemba Island[4]

Pomatiidae

  • Tropidophora zanguebarica (Petit, 1850)[4]

Veronicellidae

  • Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821)[4]
  • Laevicaulis striatus (Simroth, 1896)[1]
  • Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)[1]

Maizaniidae

  • Maizania elatior (Martens, 1892)[1]
  • Maizania volkensi (Martens, 1895)[1]

Succineidae

  • Quickia concisa (Morelet, 1849)[1][4]

Valloniidae

  • Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)[1]

Vertiginidae

Cerastidae

  • Edouardia metula (Martens, 1895)[1]
  • Gittenedouardia conulina (von Martens, 1869)[4]
  • Rachis punctata (Anton, 1839)[4]
  • Rhachidina braunsi (von Martens, 1869)[1][4]

Achatinidae

Ferussaciidae

  • Cecilioides callipeplum (Connolly, 1923)[4]
  • Cecilioides (Cecilioides) tribulationis (Preston, 1911)[1]

Micractaeonidae

Subulinidae

Subulina octona
  • Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)[4]
  • Curvella subvirescens (E. A. Smith, 1890)[4]
  • Kempioconcha terrulenta (Morelet, 1883)[1]
  • Opeas delicatum Taylor, 1877[4]
  • Opeas lamoense Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892[4]
  • Pseudoglessula (Kempioconcha) subolivacea agg. (E. A. Smith, 1890)[4]
  • Pseudopeas elgonense Connolly, 1923[1]
  • Pseudopeas igembiense Connolly, 1923[4]
  • Striosubulina striatella (Rang, 1831)[4]
  • Subulina intermedia Taylor, 1877[4]
  • Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)[4]
  • Subulina usambarica K. Pfeiffer - endemic[5]
  • Subulona ischna (Pilsbry, 1919)[1]
  • Subulona ordinaria Preston, 1910[4]
  • Subulona pinguis (Martens, 1895)[1]

Streptaxidae

Punctidae

Charopidae

Euconulidae

  • Afroconulus iredalei (Preston, 1912)[1]
  • Afroguppya quadrisculpta (Connolly, 1939)[4]
  • Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)[1]
  • Afropunctum seminium (Morelet, 1873)[1][4]
  • Microcystina minima (H. Adams, 1867)[4]

Helicarionidae

Urocyclidae

Halolimnohelicidae

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

oversea countries:

References

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External links

  • Emberton K. C., Pearce T. A., Kasigwa P. F., Tattersfield P. & Habibu Z. (1997). "High diversity and regional endemism in land snails of eastern Tanzania". Biodiversity and Conservation 6(8): 1123–1136. doi:10.1023/A:1018384101789.
  • Tattersfield P., Seddon M. B., Meena C., Kayumbo N. & Kasigwa P. (1998). "Ecology and Conservation of the Land-Snails of the Eastern Arc Mountains". Journal of East African Natural History 87(1): 119–138. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(1998)87[119:EACOTL2.0.CO;2].
  • Tattersfield P., Seddon M. B., Ngereza C. & Rowson B. (2006). "Elevational variation in diversity and composition of land-snail faunas in a Tanzanian forest". African Journal of Ecology 44(1): 47–60. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00612.x.