List of non-marine molluscs of Algeria explained

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

Freshwater gastropods

Hydrobiidae

• Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Mercuria globulina (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)^[1]
• Mercuria pycnocheilia (Bourguignat, 1862)^[1]
• Mercuria saharica (Bourguignat, 1887)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola algeriensis Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola boucheti Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola calamensis Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola chabii Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola constantinae (Letourneux, 1870)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola dupotetiana (Forbes, 1838)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola fineti Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola gerhardfalkneri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola ghamizii Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola linae Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]
• Pseudamnicola luteola (Küster, 1852)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola meluzzi Boeters, 1976^[1]
• Pseudamnicola numidica (Clessin, 1878)^[1]
• Pseudamnicola rouagi Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010^[1]

Planorbidae

• Armiger crista (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]
• Hippeutis complanatus (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]
• Bulinus truncatus (Michaud, 1829)^[2]
• Ferrissia californica (Rowell, 1863)^[2]
• Planorbis planorbis (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]

Land gastropods

Pomatiidae

• Tudorella sulcata (Draparnaud, 1805)^[3]

Cochlostomatidae

• Cochlostoma atlanticum (Bourguignat, 1868)

Spiraxidae

• Poiretia algira (Bruguière, 1792)^[3]

Chondrinidae

• Granopupa granum (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Rupestrella michaudi (Bourguignat, 1862)

Enidae

• Mastus pupa (Linnaeus, 1758)^[3]
• Mauronapaeus terverii (Forbes, 1838)

Ferussaciidae

• Ferussacia folliculum (Schröter, 1784)^[3]
• Ferussacia carnea (Risso, 1826)^[3]

Discidae

• Discus rotundatus (Müller, 1774)

Punctidae

• Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)

Milacidae

• Milax gagates (Draparnaud, 1801)^[4]
• Milax nigricans (Schulz in Philippi, 1836)^{[5] [4]}

Sphincterochilidae

• Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801)^[5]
• Sphincterochila otthianus (Bourguignat, 1864)
• Sphincterochila piestius (Bourguignat, 1864)

Valloniidae

• Plagyrona placida (Shuttleworth, 1852)^[6]

Subulinidae

• Rumina decollata (Linnaeus, 1758)^{[5] [4] [3]}

Testacellidae

• Testacella fischeriana Bourguignat, 1861^[3]
• Testacella riedeli Giusti, Manganelli et Schembri, 1995

Agriolimacidae

• Deroceras riedelianum Wiktor, 1983

Limacidae

• Ambigolimax nyctelius (Bourguignat, 1861)

Trissexodontidae

• Caracollina lenticula (Férussac, 1821)^[3]

Hygromiidae

• Ganula flava (Terver, 1839)^[3]

Geomitridae

• Cochlicella barbara (Linnaeus, 1758)^{[4] [3]}
• Cochlicella conoidea (Draparnaud, 1801)^[3]
• Trochoidea elegans (Gmelin, 1791)^[4]
• Trochoidea pyramidata (Brown, 1827)^[3]
• Xerosecta cespitum (Draparnaud, 1801)^[3]
• Xerotricha conspurcata (Draparnaud, 1801)^[3]

Helicidae

• Archelix juilleti Terver, 1839^[5]
• Archelix lactea (Müller, 1774)^[5]
• Archelix polita punctatiana Gassies, 1836^[5]
• Archelix punctata (Müller, 1774)^{[5] [3]}
• Archelix wagneri Terver, 1839^[5]
• Archelix zapharina Terver, 1839^[5]
• Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778)^{[4] [3]}
• Cantareus koraegaelius (Bourguignat in Locard, 1882)^[3]
• Cantareus subapertus (Ancey, 1893)^[7]
• Cochlicella acuta (O. F. Müller, 1774)^{[5] [3] [7]}
• Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)^{[5] [3] [7]}
• Euparypha pisana (O. F. Müller, 1774)^{[5] [3] [7]}
• Helicella acompsia (Bourguignat, 1864)^[5]
• Helicella globuloïdea (Terver, 1839)^[5]
• Helicella lauta (R. T. Lowe, 1831)^[5]
• Helicella pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)^[5]
• Helicella terveri Michaud, 1831^[5]
• Helicella virgata (da Costa, 1778)^{[5] [4] [3] [7]}
• Helix (Alabastrina) alabastrites Michaud, 1833^[5]
• Helix (Alabastrina) soluta Michaud, 1833^[5]
• Helix aspersa (Müller, 1774)^{[5] [4] [3] [7]}
• Macularia hieroglyphicula Michaud, 1833^[5]
• Macularia jourdaniana Bourguignat, 1867^[5]
• Massylaea constantina (Forbes, 1838)^[3]

Freshwater bivalves

Sphaeriidae

• Musculium lacustre (O.F. Müller, 1774)^[2]

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Morocco, Wildlife of Morocco
• List of non-marine molluscs of Tunisia, Wildlife of Tunisia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Libya, Wildlife of Libya
• Wildlife of Mauritania
• Wildlife of Western Sahara
• Wildlife of Mali
• Wildlife of Niger

Notes and References

1. Peter Glöer, Slimane Bouzid & Hans D. Boeters (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola PAULUCCI 1878 and Mercuria BOETERS 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22.
2. Ramdini Ramdane, Dirk Van Damme, Sadouk Ghania & Medjdoub-Bensaad Ferroudja (2020). "Rediscovery of Armiger crista (Linnaeus, 1857) (Gastropoda Planorbidae) in Algeria". Biodiversity Journal 11(4): 821–824.
3. Ramdane Ramdini, Houria Bouaziz-Yahiatene & Ferroudja Medjdoub-Bensaad (2021). "Diversity of terrestrial gastropods in central-northern of Algeria (Algiers and Boumerdes).". Folia Conchyliologica 60: 25-33.
4. Nedjoua Zaidi, Louiza Douafer & Amel Hamdani (2021). "Diversity and abundance of terrestrial gastropods in Skikda region (North-East Algeria): correlation with soil physicochemical factors". The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology 82: 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41936-021-00239-6
5. Amina Damerdji (2013). "Malacological Diversity on Some Lamiaceae in the Region of Tlemcen (Northwest Algeria)". Journal of Life Sciences 7(8): 856-861.
6. Enrico Talenti, Simone Cianfanelli & Marco Bodon (2020). "New records of Plagyrona Gittenberger, 1977 (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Valloniidae) from Europe and problems about specific determination". Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography 35 (2020): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.21426/B635043631
7. Ramdane Ramdini, Reham Fathey Ali, Ghania Sadouk & Ferroudja Medjdoub-Bensaad (2021). "Diversity of terrestrial gastropods in Kabylia region (Tizi-Ouzou, Northern Algeria)". Folia Malacologica 29(4): 212–221. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.029.025