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List of non marine molluscs of Jordan

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List of non-marine molluscs of Jordan

The non-marine mollusks of Jordan are a part of the fauna of Jordan. That country is land-locked and therefore it has no marine molluscs, only land and freshwater species, including snails, slugs, freshwater clams and freshwater mussels. There are ?? species of gastropods (19 species of freshwater gastropods, ?? species of land gastropods) and ?? species of freshwater bivalves living in the wild.

Contents

Summary table of number of species

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

  • Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby, 1844)
  • Theodoxus macrii (Sowerby, 1844)
  • Bithyniidae

  • Bithynia philalensis (Conrad, 1852)
  • Cochliopidae

  • Pyrgophorus cf. coronatus (L. Pfeiffer, 1840)- non-indigenous
  • Valvatidae

  • Valvata saulcyi Bourguignat, 1853
  • Hydrobiidae

  • Semisalsa contempta (Dautzenberg, 1894)
  • Semisalsa longiscata (Bourguignat, 1856)
  • Pseudamnicola solitaria Tchernov, 1971
  • Pseudamnicola gaillardotii (Bourguignat, 1856)
  • Thiaridae

  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Melanopsis buccinoidea Olivier, 1801
  • Melanopsis costata (Olivier, 1804)
  • Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - synonym: Pseudoplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - non-indigenous
  • Lymnaeidae

  • Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)
  • Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Physidae

  • Physa acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
  • Planorbidae

  • Gyraulus piscinarum (Bourguignat, 1852)
  • Planorbis planorbis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
  • Land gastropods

    Sphincterochilidae

  • Sphincterochila prophetarum (Bourguignat, 1852)
  • Hygromiidae

  • Xerocrassa langloisiana (Bourguignat, 1853)
  • Helicidae

  • Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - non-indigenous
  • References

    List of non-marine molluscs of Jordan Wikipedia


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