List of non-marine molluscs of Venezuela

The non-marine molluscs of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

are a part of the molluscan fauna of Venezuela (wildlife of Venezuela).

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

Freshwater gastropods

Freshwater gastropods include:

Ampullariidae

Ampullariidae

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...

Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823)
Marisa cornuarietis
Marisa cornuarietis
Marisa cornuarietis, common name the giant ramshorn snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snail family....

(Linnaeus, 1758)
Pomacea amazonica (Revee, 1856)

Pomacea aurostoma (Lea, 1856)

Pomacea avellana (Sowerby, 1909)

Pomacea bridgesi (Reeve, 1856) (Introduced species)

Pomacea camena (Pain, 1956)

Pomacea canaliculata
Pomacea canaliculata
Pomacea canaliculata, common name the channeled applesnail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails....

(Lamarck, 1819) (Introduced species)

Pomacea chemnitzii (Philippi, 1887)

Pomacea cingulata (Philippi, 1851)

Pomacea crassa (Swainson, 1823)

Pomacea dolioides
Pomacea dolioides
Pomacea dolioides is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.-Distribution:The native distribution of this snail is Brazil....

(Revee, 1856)
Pomacea eximia (Dunker, 1853)
Pomacea falconensis
Pomacea falconensis
Pomacea falconensis is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.-Distribution:The native distribution of this snail is Brazil....

Pain y Arias, 1958
Pomacea glauca
Pomacea glauca
Pomacea glauca is a species of freshwater gastropod in the family Ampullariidae.The species varies greatly in color, shape and size, growing to around 70 mm...

(Linnaeus, 1758)
Pomacea glauca crocostoma (Philippi, 1852)
Pomacea glauca gevesensis (Deshayes, 1801)
Pomacea glauca luteostoma (Swainson, 1822 )
Pomacea glauca orinocensis (Troschel, 1848)
Pomacea haustrum
Pomacea haustrum
Pomacea haustrum, common name the titan applesnail, is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the applesnails.- Original description :...

(Revee, 1856)
Pomacea interrupta
Pomacea interrupta
Pomacea interrupta is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae....

(Sowerby, 1909)
Pomacea lineata
Pomacea lineata
Pomacea lineata is a species of a freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.- Distribution :* Brazil- Human use :...

(Spix, 1827)
Pomacea minuscula Baker 1930
Pomacea nobilis (Revee, 1856)
Pomacea oblonga (Swainson, 1823)
Pomacea papyracea (Spix, 1827)
Pomacea patula (Revee, 1856)

Pomacea semitecta (Mousson, 1873)

Pomacea superba
Pomacea superba
Pomacea superba is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae....

(Marshall, 1928)

Pomacea swainsoni (Revee, 1856)

Pomacea tamsiana (Philippi, 1852)

Pomacea urceus
Pomacea urceus
Pomacea urceus is a species of freshwater gastropod in the family Ampullariidae, native to South America. It is a particularly large species of Pomacea, some specimens of which have been measured 115mm in height....

(Müller, 1774)

Pomacea urceus guyanensis (Lamarck, 1810)

Pomacea urceus olivacea (Spix, 1827)

Pomacea vexillun (Revee, 1856)

Ancylidae
Ancylidae
Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae the ram's horn snails and their allies...

Gundlachia saulcyana (Bourguignat, 1853)

Hebetancylus moricandi (D’Orbigny, 1837)

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 :...

Pyrgophorus coronatus
Pyrgophorus coronatus
Pyrgophorus coronatus is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.-Distribution:In Nicaragua, it is found in abundance in the volcanic crater lakes Xiloa and Apoyo -References:...

(Pfeiffer, 1840)

Pyrgophorus ernesti (Martens, 1873)

Pyrgophorus globulus (Baker, 1930)

Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828)

Pyrgophorus putialis (Baker, 1930)

Pyrgophorus platyrachis
Pyrgophorus platyrachis
Pyrgophorus platyrachis is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae....

Thompson, 1968

Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila....

Lymnaea columella (Say, 1817)

Lymnaea cousini Jousseaume, 1887

Lymnaea cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1839)

Lymnaea viatrix (D’Orbigny, 1835)

Neritidae
Neritidae
Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum, marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod mollusks in the order Neritoida....

Neritina meleagris
Neritina meleagris
Neritina meleagris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae....

(Lamarck, 1822)

Neritina piratica
Neritina piratica
Neritina piratica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae....

Russell, 1943

Neritina puncticulata (Lamarck, 1816)

Neritina reclivata
Neritina reclivata
Neritina reclivata is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.The common name is olive nerite, but that same common name is also used for Neritina usnea.-Human use:...

(Say, 1822)

Neritina virginea
Neritina virginea
Neritina virginea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.-Distribution:This species occurs in the brackish waters on the West Indian island of Dominica....

(Linnaeus 1758)

Pachychilidae
Pachychilidae
Pachychilidae, common name pachychilids, is a taxonomic family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.- Distribution :Pachychilids are freshwater snails with a worldwide distribution in the tropics...

Doryssa atra (Bruguièri, 1792)

Doryssa consolidata (Bruguièri, 1789)

Doryssa grunei (Jonas, 1844)

Doryssa lamarckiana (Brot, 1870)

Doryssa hohenackeri (Philippi, 1851)

Doryssa kappleri (Vernhout, 1914)

Doryssa transversa (Lea, 1850)

Pachychilus laevisimus
Pachychilus laevisimus
Pachychilus laevissimus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae....

(Sowerby, 1824)

Physidae
Physidae
Physidae, common name bladder snails, are a monophyletic taxonomic family of small freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the clade Hygrophila....

Aplexa rivalis
Aplexa rivalis
Aplexa rivalis is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.-Ecology:...

(Manton & Rackett, 1807)

Stenophysa acuminata (Gray & Sowerby, 1873)

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....

Biomphalaria glabrata
Biomphalaria glabrata
Biomphalaria glabrata is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails....

(Say, 1818)

Biomphalaria havanensis
Biomphalaria havanensis
Biomphalaria havanensis, common name the ghost rams-horn, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails....

(Dunker, 1850)

Biomphalaria kuhniama (Clessin, 1883)

Biomphalaria pergrina (D’Orbigny, 1835)

Bionphalaria pronum' (Von Martens 1873)
Biomphalaria straminea
Biomphalaria straminea
Biomphalaria straminea is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails....

(Dunker, 1848)
Biomphalaria tenagofila (D’Orbigny, 1835)
Drepanotrema anatium (D’Orbigny, 1835)
Drepanotrema cimex (Moricand, 1839)
Drepanotrema depressissmum (Moricand, 1839)
Drepanotrema kermatoides (D’Orbigny, 1835)
Drepanotrema lucidum (Pfeiffer, 1839)
Drepanotrema surinamensis (Dunker & Clessin, 1884)

Planorbella duryi (Wetherby 1879) (introduced species)
Planorbis circumlineatus Shuttleworth, 1854

Thiaridae

Thiaridae, common name thiarids, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea....

Aylacostoma lineolata (Gray, 1828)
Aylacostoma stringillata (Dumker, 1843)
Aylacostoma venezuelensis (Dumker & Revee, 1859)
Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (introduced species)
Thiara granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (introduced species)

Land gastropods

Land gastropods include:

Achatinidae

Achatinidae

Achatinidae is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa...

Achatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) (introduced species)

Arionidae

Arionidae, common name the "roundback slugs" or "round back slugs" are a taxonomic family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea.- Distribution :...

Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805) (introduced species)

Bradybaenidae

Bradybaenidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea....

Bradybaena similaris (Fèrussac, 1821) (introduced species)

Clausiliidae

Clausiliidae, common name door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....

Bequaertinenia bequaerti (Arias, 1953)
Columbina cyclostoma (Pfeiffer, 1849)
Gonionenia dohrni (Pfeiffer, 1860)
Nenia geayi (Jousseaume, 1849)

Euconulidae

Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails.- Distribution :...

Guppya gundlachi (Pfeiffer)
Habroconus cassiquiensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)
Habroconus ernsti (Jousseaume)

Ferussaciidae

Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.This family has no subfamilies...

Cecilioides aciculata (Müller 1774) (introduced species)
Cecilioides aperta (Swainson, 1840) (introduced species)
Cecilioides consobrina (d’Orbigny, 1842)

Helicidae

The Helicidae, sometimes known as the typical snails, are a taxonomic family of small to large, air-breathing, land snails. In other words, they are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....

Helix aspersa
Helix aspersa
Helix aspersa, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail, a pulmonate gastropod that is one of the best-known of all terrestrial molluscs. The species has been placed in the genus Helix, in all sources between 1774 and 1988 and in most sources until recently...

(Müller, 1774) (introduced species)
Helix pomatia
Helix pomatia
Helix pomatia, common names the Burgundy snail, Roman snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae...

Linnaeus, 1758 (introduced species)
Theba pisana
Theba pisana
Theba pisana, common names the white garden snail, the sand hill snail, white Italian snail, the Mediterranean coastal snail, or simply the Mediterranean snail, is an edible species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae...

(Müller, 1774) (introduced species)

Helicinidae

Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea....

Helicina microdina (Morelet, 1854)
- Helicina microdina huberi Breure, 1976

Helicina tamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Helicina tamsiana appuni (Von Marten, 1873)

Limacidae

Limacidae, common name the keelback slugs, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Limacoidea.- Distribution :...

Agriolimax laevis (Müller, 1774) (introduced species)
Agriolimax reticulatus (Müller, 1774) (introduced species)
Lehmannia valenciana (Férussac, 1822) (introduced species)
Milax gagatex (Draparnaud) (introduced species)

Strophocheilidae

Strophocheilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea .- Subfamilies and genera :...

Megalobulimus oblongus
Megalobulimus oblongus
Megalobulimus oblongus, also known as Strophocheilus oblongus, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in:* Brazil...

(Müller, 1774)

Neocyclotidae

Neocyclotidae is a family of tropical land snails with gills and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Architaenioglossa belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda .-Subfamilies:Subfamilies within the family Neocyclotidae include:* subfamily Neocyclotinae Kobelt &...

Incidostoma nanun (Bartsch & Morrrison, 1942)
Poteria fasciatum
Poteria fasciatum
Poteria fasciatum is a species of tropical land snails with gills and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Neocyclotidae....

(Kobelt & Schwanheim, 1912)
Poteria translucida
Poteria translucida
Poteria translucida is a species of tropical land snail with gills and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Neocyclotidae....

(Sowerby, 1843)

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...

Auris sinuata (Albers, 1854)
Bulimulus dysoni Pfeiffer
Bulimulus cacticolus Reeve
Bulimulus constrictus Pfeiffer
Bulimulus krebsianus Pilsbry, 1897
Drymaeus extraneus (Haas, 1955) - synonym: Drymaeus griffini Haas, 1955
Drymaeus grandensis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
Drymaeus imperfectus (Guppy, 1866)
Drymaeus meridanus (Pfeiffer)
Drymaeus multilineatus
Drymaeus multilineatus
Drymaeus multilineatus, common name the lined treesnail, is a species of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.- External links :...

(Say, 1825)
Drymaeus rex Breure, 2009
Drymaeus ruthveni Baker, 1926
Drymaeus trigonostomus (Jonas, 1844)
Drymaeus trigonostomus knorri (Pfeiffer, 1846)
Drymaeus virgulatus (Férussac)
Eudolichotis aurissciuri (Guppy, 1866)
Eudolichotis distorta
Eudolichotis distorta
Eudolichotis distorta is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in:* Brazil* El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela- External links :...

(Bruguière)
Eudolichotis euryomphala
Eudolichotis euryomphala
Eudolichotis euryomphala is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in:* El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela- External links :...

(Jonas, 1844)
Oxystyla abducta (Shuttleworth, 1856)
Oxystyla maracaibensis (Pfeiffer, 1899)
Plekocheilus blainvilleanus (Pfeiffer, 1848)
Plekocheilus breweri Breure & Schlögl, 2010
Plekocheilus coloratus' (Nyst, 1845)

Plekocheilus gibber (Oberwimmer, 1931)

Plekocheilus huberi Breure, 2009

Plekocheilus marmoratus
Plekocheilus marmoratus
Plekocheilus marmoratus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.- Distribution :* El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela...

(Dunker, 1844)

Plekocheilus nebulosus Breure, 2009

Plekocheilus pardalis (Férrusac, 1821)

Plekocheilus sophiae Breure, 2009

Plekocheilus tatei Haas, 1955

Plekocheilus tepuiensis Breure, 2009

Plekocheilus veranyi (Pfeiffer, 1847)

Plekocheilus vlceki Breure & Schlögl, 2010

Simpulopsis magnus Thompson, 1957

Tomigerus cumingi Pfeiffer

Pleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This family is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata...

Labyrinthus leucodon (Pfeiffer, 1847)

Labyrinthus plicatus
Labyrinthus plicatus
Labyrinthus plicatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Labyrinthus.- Distribution :This species occurs in:* Venezuela** El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela* Colombia* Panama...

(Born, 1780)

Labyrinthus tamsiana (Dunker, 1847) )

Labyrinthus umbrus
Labyrinthus umbrus
Labyrinthus umbrus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.This taxon was described as Labyrinthus umbrus by Fred Gilbert Thompson from Rancho Grande, Aragua in Venezuela in 1957.Alan Solem considered this taxon as a...

(Thompson, 1957)

Solaropsis venezuelensis Preston, 1909

Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....

Pupoides marginatus nitidulus (Pfeiffer, 1839)

Bothriopupa tenuidens (Adams)

Sagdidae
Sagdidae
Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea...

Xenodiscula venezuelensis Pilsbry, 1919

Scolodontidae
Scolodontidae
Scolodontidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonategastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rhytidoidea .-Taxonomy:...

Systrophia starkii (H. B. Baker)

Systrophiidae
Drepanostomella pinchoti Pilsbry, 1930

Spiraxidae
Spiraxidae
Spiraxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the clade Eupulmonata .- 2005 taxonomy :...

Pseudosubulina decussata Baker, 1926

Pseudosubulina chaperi (Jousseaume 1889)

Spiraxis blandi (Crosse,1874)

Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in theStylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi....

Gulella bicolor (Hutton, 1834) (introduced species)

Streptaxis glaber Pfeiffer

Subulinidae
Subulinidae
Subulinidae is a family of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.- Anatomy :...

Allopeas gracile
Allopeas gracile
Allopeas gracile, common name the graceful awlsnail, is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Distribution :...

(Hutton, 1834)

Allopeas micra
Allopeas micra
Allopeas micra is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Distribution :The distribution of Allopeas micra includes:* West Indies* from Mexico to Bolivia...

(d’Orbigny, 1835) (introduced species)

Beckianum beckianum
Beckianum beckianum
Beckianum beckianum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Subspecies :Subspecies of Beckianum beckianum include:* Beckianum beckianum beckianum Beckianum beckianum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial...

(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)

Dysopeas subopacum (Baker, 1927)

Dysopeas translucidum (Baker, 1927)

Lamellaxis martensiana (Baker, 1927)

Lamellaxis mauritianus (Pfeiffer, 1952) (introduced species)

Lamellaxis pachyspira Pilsbry 1905

Leptinaria unilamellata
Leptinaria unilamellata
Leptinaria unilamellata is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Distribution :Leptinaria unilamellata is a widespread species throughout the Caribbean Basin....

(D’Orbigny, 1837)

Leptopeas venezuelensis (Pfeiffer, 1856)

Obeliscus octogyrus (Pfeiffer, 1850)

Obeliscus rectus Baker, 1927

Opeas gracile (Hutton, 1834) (introduced species)

Opeas pellucidum (Pfeiffer, 1847)

Opeas pumilum
Opeas pumilum
Opeas pumilum, common name dwarf awlsnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Distribution :Non-indigenous:* Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"....

(Pfeiffer, 1847) (introduced species)

Opeas pyrgula Schmacker and Boettger, 1891 (introduced species)

Subulina octona
Subulina octona
Subulina octona is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.- Distribution :The native distribution of this species includes:* Caribbean* Cuba...

(Bruguière, 1798) (introduced species)

Subulina striatella
Subulina striatella
Subulina striatella is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.This species is native in tropical West Africa. It is introduced in the Mascarene Islands: ....

(Rang, 1831) (introduced species)

Succineidae
Succineidae
Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, land snails , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored...

Omalonyx felina Guppy 1878

Omalonyx pattersonae Tillier, 1891

Succinea tamsiana Pfeiffer

Thysanophoridae
Thysanophoridae
Thysanophoridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea .These are common woodland snails of North America...

Thysanophora canalis (Pilsbry, 1910)

Thysanophora plagiptycha (Shuttleworth, 1854)

Thysanophora satanaensis (Pfeiffer, 1854)

Urocoptidae
Urocoptidae
Urocoptidae is a family of land snails, gastropods in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.- 2005 taxonomy :The Urocoptidae family has been classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata .The...

Brachypodella hanleyana (Pfeiffer, 1847)

Brachypodella leucopleura (Menke, 1847)

Brachypodella nidicostata Spence, 1920

Veronicellidae
Veronicellidae
The Veronicellidae, common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a terrestrial family of pulmonate slugs.This family has no subfamilies ....

Diplosolenodes occidentalis (Guilding, 1825)

Diplosolenodes bielenbergii (Semper, 1885)

Forcatulus coerulescens (Semper, 1885)

Latipes pterocaulis (Simroth, 1914)

Microveronicella diminuta (Simroth, 1914)

Sarasinula linguaeformis (Semper, 1885)

Sarasinula plebeia
Sarasinula plebeia
Sarasinula plebeia, common name the bean slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.-Distribution:...

(Fischer, 1868)

Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.- Distribution :...

Gastrocopta barbadensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)

Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter)

Gastrocopta geminidens (Pilsbry)

Xanthonychidae
Xanthonychidae
Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This family is within the clade Eupulmonata ....

Averellia coactiliata (Férrussac, 1838)

Freshwater bivalves
Corbiculidae
Corbiculidae
The Corbiculidae, common name "basket clams", are a family of aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Veneroida.Clams in this family release many juveniles into the surrounding waters that have hatched inside the clams . Fertilization is internal...

Corbicula fluminalis (Múller, 1774) (introduced species)

Corbulidae
Corbulidae
Corbulidae is a family of bivalve molluscs in the order Myoida.-Genera and species in the family Corbulidae:* Caryocorbula Bruguiere, 1792** Caryocorbula porcella * Corbula Bruguiere, 1797** Corbula alabamiensis Lea, 1833...

Cyanocyclas cuneata Say, 1822

Hyriidae
Hyriidae
Hyriidae is a family of pearly freshwater mussels in the order Unionoida native to South America, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Like all members of that order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish. The classification recognized by Banarescu uses three subfamilies...

Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819
Castalia orinocensis Morrison, 1943
Castalia schombergiana Sowerby, 1869
Castalia stevensi (Baker, 1930)
Dilodon granosus Bruguiere, 1782
Dilodon losadae Haas, 1819
Dilodon flucki Morrison 1943
Paxyodon syrmatophorus Meuschen, 1781
Prisodon obliquus (Schumacher, 1871)
Triplodon stevensii Lea, 1871

Mycetopodidae

The Mycetopodidae are a family of freshwater pearly mussels restricted to South America. They are named for the mushroom-like shape of their foot. Like all members of the Unionoida they reproduce via a larval stage that temporarily parasitizes fish...

Anodontites crispatus Bruguiere, 1792
Anodontites elongatus (Swainson, 1823)
Anodontites ensiformes (Spix, 1827)
Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1928
Anodontites infosus Baker, 1930
Anodontites pittieri Marshall, 1922
Anodontites schombergianus Sowerby, 1870
Anodontite sirisans Marshall, 1926
Anodontite tenebricosus D’Orbigny, 1835
Anodontite tortilis (Lea, 1852)
Anodontite trapezeus (Spix, 1827)

Anodontites trapesialis Lamarck, 1819

Anodontites trigona (Spix, 1827)

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1919

Mycetopoda soleniformes D’Orbigny, 1835

Tamsiella tamsiana Dunker, 1895

Pisidiidae
Pisidiidae
-Taphonomic implications:In large enough quantities, gastropod shells can have enough of an impact on environmental conditions to effect the ability of organic remains in the local environment to fossilize. For example, in the Dinosaur Park Formation, fossil hadrosaur eggshell is rare...

Eupera bahiensis (Spix, 1827)

Eupera modioliforme Anton, 1837

Eupera simoni Jousseaume, 1889

External links

Breure A. S. H. (2009). Radiation in land snails on Venezuelan tepui islands. In: Cohen A. et al. (eds.) Evolutionary islands: 150 years after Darwin Abstracts: 38. Leiden. PDF.
Breure A. S. H. (1976). "Over de landmollusken van het Nationale Park "Henri Pittier", Venezuela". Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging 172: 569-572. PDF.
Breure A. S. H. (1975). "Description of a collecting trip in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela". De Kreukel 11(7): 83-116. PDF.

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Freshwater gastropods

Land gastropods

Freshwater bivalves

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