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List of non marine molluscs of India

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List of non-marine molluscs of India

The non-marine molluscs of India are a part of the molluscan fauna of India.

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There are 5070 species of marine and non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. There are 3371 species of marine molluscs in India.

There are 1671 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. This includes 1488 terrestrial species in 140 genera and 183 freshwater species in 53 genera.

There are a total of species of gastropods, which breaks down to ?? species of freshwater gastropods, and 1488 species of land gastropods, plus ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.

Summary table of number of species

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

  • Neritina pulligera (Linnaeus) - subgenus Neritina
  • Neritina platyconcha (Annandale & Prashad) - subgenus Dostia
  • Neritina violacea (Gmelin) - subgenus Dostia
  • Neritina auriculata Lamarck - subgenus Neripteron
  • Neritina perottetiana (Recluz) - subgenus Vittina
  • Neritina smithi Wood - subgenus Vittina
  • Neritina turrita (Gmelin) - subgenus Vittina
  • Neritina variegata Lesson - subgenus Vittina
  • Neritodryas subsulcata (Sowerby)
  • Theodoxus bicolor (Recluz) - subgenus Clithon
  • Theodoxus corona (Linnaeus) - subgenus Clithon
  • Theodoxus reticularis (Sowerby) - subgenus Clithon
  • Septaria lineata (Lamarck)
  • Septaria porcellana (Linnaeus)

    • Viviparidae

  • Angulyagra microchaetophora (Annandale)
  • Angulyagra oxytropis (Benson)
  • Taia crassicallosa Annandale & Rao

    • Ampullariidae

  • Pila globosa (Swainson) - including varieties incrassatula (Nevill) and minor (Nevill)
  • Pila olea (Reeve)
  • Pila conica (Gray) - including variety compacta Reeve
  • Pila theobaldi (Hanley)
  • Pila virens (Lamarck)
  • Pila saxea (Reeve)

    • Valvatidae

  • Valvata piscinalis (Müller)

    • Littorinidae

  • Cremnoconchus syhadrensis (Blanford)
  • Cremnoconchus carinatus (Layard)
  • Cremnoconchus conicus (Blanford)
  • Mainwaringia paludomoidea Nevill

    • Pomatiopsidae

  • Tricula montana (Benson, 1843)

    • Hydrobiidae

  • Mysorella costigera (Kuster)

    • Assimineidae

  • Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer)

    • Thiaridae

  • Paludomus tanschauria Gmelin
  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Plotia scabra (Muller)

    • Lymnaeidae

  • Lymnaea luteola Lamarck

    • Planorbidae

  • Anisus convexiusulcus (Benson, 1863) = Gyraulus convexiusulcus (Benson, 1863)
  • Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes, 1834)

    • Land gastropods

    Species of gastropods of India include:

    Hydrocenidae

  • Georissa pyxis (Benson)

    • Helicinidae

  • Pleuropoma andamanica (Benson)
  • Pleuropoma arakanensis (Blanford)
  • Pleuropoma dunkeri (Zelebor)
  • Pleuropoma nicobarica (Pfeiffer)
  • Pleropoma rogersi (Bourne)
  • Pleuropoma scrupula (Benson)
  • Sulfurina behniana (Pfeiffer)
  • Sulfurina bensoni Wagner
  • Sulfurina zelebori (Pfeiffer)

    • Achatinidae

  • Achatina fulica fulica (Bowdich, 1822)

    • Camaenidae

  • Amphidromus
  • Chloritis propinqua (Pfeiffer, 1857)

    • Cerastidae

  • Rhachis bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Rhachis praetermissus (Blanford, 1861)
  • Rhachis pulcher (Gray, 1825)
  • Rhachis punctatus (Anton, 1839)

    • Charopidae

  • Ruthvenia retifera (Pfeiffer, 1845)

    • Cyclophoridae

  • Alycaeus expatriatus Blanford
  • Cyclophorus altivagus (Benson, 1854)
  • Cyclophorus stenomphalus (Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Cyclophorus indicus (Deshayes, 1832)
  • Cyclophorus nilagiricus (Benson, 1852)
  • Cyathopoma atrosetosum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma filocinctum (Benson)
  • Cyathopoma latilabrie (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma nitidum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma ovatum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma trochlea (Benson, 1851)
  • Cyathopoma wynaadense (Blanford, 1868)
  • Mychopoma seticinctum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Theobaldius tristis (Blanford, 1869)
  • Theobaldius ravidus (Benson, 1851)
  • Theobaldius stenostoma (Sowerby)
  • Tortulosa recurvatus (Pfeiffer)
  • Alycaeus expatriatus (Blanford, 1860)
  • Alycaeus footei (Blanford, 1861)
  • Pterocyclus bilabiatus (Sowerby, 1843)
  • Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus (G. Nevill, 1881)
  • Pterocyclus nanus (Benson, 1851)
  • Pterocyclus comatus (Mollendorff, 1897)
  • Ditropis
  • Japonia
  • Craspedotropis bilirata (Beddome, 1875)
  • Craspedotropis cuspidata (Benson, 1851)
  • Leptopomoides valvatus (Mollendroff, 1897)

    • Diplommatinidae

  • Nicida anamullayana (Beddome, 1875)
  • Nicida liricincta (Blanford, 1868)
  • Nicida nilgirica (Blanford, 1860)
  • Nicida nitidula (Blanford, 1868)
  • Nicida subovata (Beddome, 1875)
  • Opisthostoma deccanense (Beddome, 1875)
  • Opisthostoma fairbanki (Blanford, 1866)
  • Ophisthostoma macrostoma (Blanford, 1869)
  • Diplommatina canarica (Beddome, 1875)

    • Endodontidae

  • Philalanka bidenticulata (Benson, 1852)
  • Philalanka daghoba (Blanford, 1861)
  • Philalanka quinquilirata (Gude, 1914)
  • Thysanota guerini (Pfeiffer, 1842)
  • Ruthvenia retifera (Pfeiffer, 1845)

    • Enidae

  • Ena

    • Staffordiidae - this family lives only in India

  • Staffordia daflaensis (Godwin-Austen)
  • Staffordia staffordi (Godwin-Austen)
  • Staffordia toruputuensis Godwin-Austen

    • Helicarionidae

  • Kaliella barrackporensis (Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Kaliella sigurensis (Godwin-Austen, 1882)
  • Sitala liricincta (Stolickzka, 1871)
  • Sitala palmaria (Benson, 1864)
  • Sitala denselirata (Preston, 1908)

    • Ariophantidae

  • Ariophanta canarica (Blanford, 1901)
  • Ariophanta cysis (Benson, 1852)
  • Ariophanta immerita (Blanford, 1870)
  • Ariophanta interrupta (Benson, 1834)
  • Ariophanta kadapaensis Nevill
  • Ariophanta thyreus (Benson, 1852)
  • Cryptozona albata (Blanford, 1880) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona belangeri (Deshayes, 1834) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona bistrialis (Beck) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona ligulata (Ferussac)
  • Cryptozona maderaspatana (Gray, 1834) (subgenus Nilgiria)
  • Cryptozona semirugata (Beck, 1837) (subgenus Nilgiria)
  • Cryptozona sisparica (Blanford, 1866)
  • Cryptozona solata (Benson, 1848)
  • Euplecta acuducta (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta cacuminifera (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta fluctuosa (Blanford, 1901)
  • Euplecta hyphasma (Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Euplecta granulifera (Blanford, 1901)
  • Euplecta indica (Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Euplecta mucronifera (H. Adams, 1869)
  • Euplecta semidecussata (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Euplecta subdecussata (Pfeiffer)
  • Euplecta travancorica (Benson, 1865)
  • Hemiplecta beddomii (Blanford, 1874)
  • Macrochlamys aulopsis (Benson, 1863)
  • Macrochlamys indica
  • Macrochlamys lixa (Blanford, 1866)
  • Macrochlamys prava (Blanford, 1904)
  • Macrochlamys vilipensa (Benson, 1853)
  • Macrochlamys woodiana (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Indrella ampulla (Benson, 1850)
  • Mariaella beddomei (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
  • Mariaella dussumieri (Gray, 1855)

    • Pupillidae

  • Pupilla

    • Pyramidulidae

  • Pyramidula

    • Streptaxidae

  • Streptaxis canaricus (Blanford, 1869)
  • Streptaxis concinnus (Blanford, 1880)
  • Streptaxis peroteti (Petit, 1841)
  • Streptaxis scalptus (Blanford, 1899)
  • Streptaxis subacutus (Blanford, 1899)
  • Gluella bicolor (Hutton, 1834)
  • Gluella canarica (Blanford, 1880)
  • Gluella exilis (Blanford, 1880)
  • Gluella turricula (Blanford, 1899)
  • Huttonella bicolor (Hutton)
  • Ennea

    • Diapheridae

  • Sinoennea Kobelt, 1904

    • Succineidae

  • Succinea baconi (Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Succinea gravelyi Rao, 1924
  • Succinea raoi (Subba Rao & Mitra, 1976)
  • Succinea subgranosa (Pfeiffer, 1849)

    • Subulinidae

  • Opeas gracilis (Hutton, 1834)
  • Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Zootecus insularis (Ehrenberg, 1831)
  • Glessula canarica (Beddome, 1906)
  • Glessula chessoni (Benson, 1860)
  • Glessula inornata (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Glessula mullorum (Blanford, 1861)
  • Glessula oreas (Reeve, 1850)
  • Glessula orophila (Reeve, 1849)
  • Glessula perrotteti (Pfeiffer, 1842)
  • Glessula pseudoreas (Nevill, 1881)
  • Glessula subserena (Beddome, 1906)
  • Glessula tenuispira (Benson, 1836)
  • Glessula textilis (Blanford, 1866)
  • Glessula tornensis (Blanford, 1870)
  • Lamellaxis gracile (Hutton)
  • Zootecus chion (Pfeiffer, 1856)

    • Valloniidae

  • Vallonia

    • Veronicellidae

  • Vaginula alte Férussac, 1821 =? Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
  • Filicaulis (Lavecaulis) frauenfeldi (Semper, 1885) = Vaginula frauenfeldi Semper, 1885

    • Vertiginidae

  • Pupisoma evezardi (Blanford, 1875)

    • Pleurodontidae

  • Planispira fallaciosa (Férussac, 1821)
  • Planispira nilagerica (Pfeiffer, 1845)
  • Planispira vittata (Muller, 1774)

    • unsorted:

  • Lithotis rupicola
  • Diplommantina
  • Apatetes
  • Corilla
  • Edouardia
  • Eurychlamys
  • Microcystina
  • Prosopeas
  • Pupoides
  • Bifidaria
  • Micraulax
  • Pearsonia
  • Pseudaustenia
  • Cyclotopsis
  • Thysanota
  • Planispira
  • Rachisellus
  • Satiella
  • Tortulosa
  • Cerastus

    • References

    List of non-marine molluscs of India Wikipedia
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