List of non-marine molluscs of Brazil explained

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

There are at least 1,074[1] native nominal species of non-marine molluscs living in Brazil.

There are at least 956[1] nominal species of gastropods, which breaks down to about 250 species of freshwater gastropods, and about 700[1] species of land gastropods (590 species of snails[2] and approximately 110(?) species of slugs), plus at least 117[1] species of bivalves living in the wild.

There are at least 373 species of freshwater molluscs in Brazil.[1]

The number of native species is at least 1,074[1] and the number of non-indigenous molluscs in Brazil is, at minimum, 32 species.[1] The most serious invasive alien species in Paraná State are the land snail Achatina fulica and the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata.[3]

Freshwater gastropods
About 250
Land gastropods: snails590
Land gastropods: slugs110(?)
Gastropods (total)over 950
Bivalvesat least 117
Molluscs (total)1107
Non-indigenous gastropods in the wild? freshwater and ? land
Non-indigenous synantrop gastropods?
Non-indigenous bivalves in the wild?
Non-indigenous synantrop bivalves?
Non-indigenous molluscs (total)32

In Rio Grande do Sul, 201 species and subspecies of non-marine mollusks were recorded: 156 gastropods (83 land snails + 18 slugs + 55 freshwater snails) and 45 bivalves.[4]

In Santa Catarina, 158 species and subspecies of non-marine mollusk were recorded: 135 gastropods (103 land gastropods + 32 freshwater snails) and 23 bivalves.[5]

Freshwater gastropods

The following list of freshwater gastropods is based on the two southernmost states.[4] [5]

Pleuroceridae

Cochliopidae

Tateidae

Pomatiopsidae

Thiaridae

Chilinidae

Physidae

Lymnaeidae

Land gastropods

The listing of land snails is complete for snails based on Saldago (2003).[2] The slug listings are probably incomplete because they are based on list from two southernmost states only.[4] [5]

Neocyclotidae (complete)

Diplommatinidae (complete)

Vertiginidae (complete)

Pyramidulidae

Valloniidae (complete)

Succineidae (complete)

Ellobiidae

Achatinidae

Charopidae (complete)

Helicodiscidae (complete)

Punctidae (complete)

Zonitidae (complete)

Veronicellidae

Milacidae

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

Philomycidae

Euconulidae (complete)

Ferussaciidae (complete)

Discidae

Subulinidae (complete)

Megaspiridae (complete)

Oleacinidae (complete)

Simpulopsidae

Odontostomidae

Scolodontidae (complete)

Streptaxidae (complete)

Camaenidae (complete)

Pleurodontidae (complete)

Bradybaenidae (complete)

Epiphragmophoridae (complete)

Helicidae (complete)

Bivalvia

116 species.

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Norma Campos . Salgado . Arnaldo C. dos Santos . Coelho . 2003 . Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) . Terrestrial molluscs of Brazil (Gastropoda, operculate or not, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae and Limacidae) . Portuguese . Revista de Biología Tropical . 51 . 3 . 149–89 .
  3. (2009) PORTARIA No 125, DE 07 DE AGOSTO DE 2009, accessed 7 April 2010.
  4. Agudo-Padrón A. I. (14 May) 2009. Recent Terrestrial and Freshwater Molluscs of Rio Grande do Sul State, RS, Southern Brazil Region: A Comprehensive Synthesis and Check List . Visaya April 2009, pages 1–13.
  5. Aisur Ignacio Agudo-Padrón (21 July) 2008. Recent Terrestrial And Freshwater Molluscs Of Santa Catarina State, Sc, Southern Brazil Region: A Comprehensive Synthesis And Check List. Visaya April 2009, pages 1–12.
  6. Simone . L.R.L. . Rolán . E. . A new genus and three new species of freshwater cochliopids (Caenogastropoda) from Goiás, Brazil . Iberus . 2021 . 31 . 1.
  7. Simone . L.R.L. . Oliveira . G.V.d. . A new species of the micro snail genus Heleobia (Caenogastropoda, Cochliopidae) from Bahia, Brazil . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 2021 . 61 . e20216143.
  8. Simone . Luiz Ricardo L. . Freshwater micro-gastropods from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil: two new truncatelloid caenogastropods and anatomy of Chilina megastoma Hylton Scott, 1958 . Folia Malacologica . 25 March 2021 . 29 . 1 . 13–32 . 10.12657/folmal.029.002. free .
  9. Maria Elina . Bichuette . Eleonora . Trajano . September 2003 . A population study of epigean and subterranean Potamolithus snails from southeast Brazil (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) . Hydrobiologia . 505 . 1–3 . 107–17 . . 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000007299.26220.b8. 35607414 .
  10. Malek E. A. (1983). "The South American hydrobioid genus Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911". The Nautilus 97(1): 16-20.
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  12. Martins R. T. & Alves R. da G. 2008. Occurrence of Naididae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) from three gastropod species in irrigation fields in southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 8(3),
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  14. Mansur, M.C.D. 1996. Trochogyra leptotera. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. . Downloaded on 20 November 2009.
  15. Teixeira CG, Thiengo SC, Thome JW, Medeiros AB, Camillo-Coura L, Agostini AA . On the diversity of mollusc intermediate hosts of Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Cespedes, 1971 in southern Brazil . Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz . 88 . 3 . 487–9 . 1993 . 8107609 . 10.1590/S0074-02761993000300020. free .
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  17. Simone. L. R. L.. Casati, R. . New land mollusk fauna from Serra da Capivara, Piauí, Brazil, with a new genus and five new species (Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea, Streptaxidae, Subulinidae). Zootaxa. 3683. 2. 145–158. 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.4. 2013-07-03.
  18. Simone. L. R. L.. Taxonomical study on a sample of pulmonates from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, with description of a new genus and four new species (Mollusca: Orthalicidae and Megalobulimidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 2012. 52. 36. 431–439. 10.1590/S0031-10492012021600001. free.
  19. Simone. L.R.L.. The presence of the Argentinian genus Pilsbrylia in Brazil, with description of a new species (Gastropoda, Odontostomidae). Journal of Conchology. 2018. 43. 1. 13–16.
  20. Santos S. B. dos, Viana T. A. & Fonseca F. C. (2008). "First record of the micro-predator Huttonella bicolor (Hutton, 1834) (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae) on Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil". Biociências, Porto Alegre, 16(2): 145–148. PDF.
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