List of non-marine molluscs of New Caledonia
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The non-marine molluscs of New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

are a part of the molluscan fauna of New Caledonia.

Freshwater gastropods

Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae, common name mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Distribution :...

  • Heterocyclus perroquini
    Heterocyclus perroquini
    Heterocyclus perroquini is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....

  • Heterocyclus petiti
    Heterocyclus petiti
    Heterocyclus petiti is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....



Planorbidae
Planorbidae
Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks....

  • Glyptophysa petiti
    Glyptophysa petiti
    Glyptophysa petiti is a species of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....

    Crosse, 1872


Land gastropods

Draparnaudiidae
  • Draparnaudia
    Draparnaudia
    Draparnaudia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Partuloidea.Draparnaudia is the only genus in the family Draparnaudiidae....

    Montrouzier, 1859 - genus Draparnaudia is endemic to New Caledonia


Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the informal group Sigmurethra of the clade Stylommatophora...

  • Leucocharis pancheri - endemic


Placostylidae
Placostylidae
Placostylidae is a family of land snails, gastropods in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.- Taxonomy :The Placostylidae family is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata .This family has no subfamilies Placostylidae is...

  • Placostylus eddystonensis
    Placostylus eddystonensis
    Placostylus eddystonensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Placostylidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....

    Pfeiffer, 1855 - endemic
  • Placostylus fibratus
    Placostylus fibratus
    Placostylus fibratus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Placostylidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....

    Martyn, 1789 - endemic
  • Placostylus porphyrostomus
    Placostylus porphyrostomus
    Placostylus porphyrostomus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Placostylidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia....

    Pfeiffer, 1851 - endemic

See also

  • List of marine molluscs of New Caledonia

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