List of non-marine molluscs of Egypt explained

The non-marine molluscs of Egypt are a part of the molluscan fauna of Egypt (wildlife of Egypt).

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

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

• Theodoxus niloticus (Reeve, 1856)^{[1] [2]}

Viviparidae

• Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804)^{[1] [2]}

Ampullariidae

• Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804)^{[1] [2]}
• Pila ovata (Olivier, 1804)^[1]

Valvatidae

• Valvata nilotica Jickeli, 1874^[1]

Hydrobiidae

• Hydrobia musaensis Frauenfeld, 1855^[1]
• Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)^[1]

Bithyniidae

• Gabbiella senaariensis (Küster, 1852)^{[1] [2]}

Melanopsidae

• Melanopsis praemorsa (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1]

Potamididae

• Potamides conicus (de Blainville, 1829)^[1]

Physidae

• Haitia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)^{[1] [2]}

Thiaridae

• Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804)^{[3] [1] [2]}
• Cleopatra ferruginea (Lea & Lea, 1850)
• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)^{[4] [1] [2]}

Planorbidae

• Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826)^[1]
• Biomphalaria alexandrina (Ehrenberg, 1831)^{[1] [2]}
• hybrid Biomphalaria glabrata × Biomphalaria alexandrina^[5]
• Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818)^[1]
• Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831)^[1]
• Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)^{[1] [2]}
• Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848)^[1]
• Gyraulus ehrenbergi (Beck, 1837)^{[1] [2]}
• Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879)^{[1] [2]}
• Planorbis planorbis (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1]
• Segmentorbis angustus (Jickeli, 1874)^[1]

Lymnaeidae

• Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[1]
• Galba schirazensis (Küster, 1863)^[1]
• Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1]
• Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)^[1]
• Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)^{[6] [1] [2]}

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Egypt include:

Succineidae

• Succinea cleopatra Pallary, 1909^[2]

Parmacellidae

• Parmacella festae Gambetta, 1925 - northern Egypt^[7]
• Parmacella olivieri Cuvier, 1804 - northern Egypt^[8]

Subulinidae

• Rumina decollata (Linnaeus, 1758) - non-indigenous^[9]
• Rumina saharica Pallary, 1901^[10]

Cochlicellidae

• Cochlicella acuta (Muller, 1774)^{[11] [10]}

Ariophantidae

• Macrochlamys indica Benson, 1832^[11]

Sphincterochilidae

• Sphincterochila boissieri (Charpentier, 1847)^[11]

Pupillidae

• Pupoides coenopictus (Hutton, 1834)^[12]

Hygromiidae

• Monacha arbustorum^[11]
• Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)^[11]
• Monacha obstructa (Pfeiffer, 1842)^[11]
• Xerocrassa tanousi (Westerlund)^[10]
• Xerocrassa tuberculosa (Conrad, 1852)^[10]
• Xeropicta krynickii (Krynicki, 1833)^[10]
• Xeropicta vestalis (Pfeiffer, 1841)^[11]

Helicidae

• Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[11]
• Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)^{[11] [10]}
• Eremina desertorum (Forskål, 1775)^[11] - image (plate 95, figure 59)^[10]
• Eremina ehrenbergi (Roth, 1839)^[11]
• Helix pronuba Westerlund, 1879^[10]
• Theba pisana (Muller, 1774)^{[11] [10]}

Hothouse aliens

"Hothouse aliens" in Egypt include:

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Israel, Wildlife of Israel
• List of non-marine molluscs of Libya, Wildlife of Libya
• List of non-marine molluscs of Sudan, Wildlife of Sudan

Notes and References

1. Wael M. Lotfy & Lamiaa M Lotfy (2015). "Synopsis of the Egyptian freshwater snail fauna". Folia Malacologica 23(1): 19-40. DOI: 10.12657/folmal.023.002
2. Mohamed A Hussein, Ahmad H Obuid-Allah, Amal A Mahmoud & Heba M Fangary (2016). "Population dynamics of freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) at Qena Governorate, upper Egypt Egyptian". Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology 3(1): 11-22.
3. Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (January) 2006. Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata) . Arab J. Biotech., Vol. 9, No. (1) Jan. (2006): 17-26.
4. Madhyastha A. (2010). Melanoides tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. . Downloaded on 3 December 2010.
5. Yousif . F.. Ibrahim . A.. Abdel Kader . A.. El-Bardicy . S.. Invasion of the Nile Valley in Egypt by a hybrid of Biomphalaria glabrata and Biomphalaria alexandrina, snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 28. 2. 569–582. 1998. 9707685.
6. Appleton C., Ghamizi M., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Lymnaea natalensis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. . Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
7. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4091 "Species summary for Parmacella festae"
8. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1269 "Species summary for Parmacella olivieri"
9. Mienis H. K. 2003. A new colony of Rumina saharica discovered in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 11-12.
10. Reham Fathey Ali (2017). "Contribution to the malacofauna of the north coast of Egypt". Folia Malacologica 25(2): 125-142. DOI:https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.025.011
11. Commonwealth of Australia. (April 2002) "Citrus Imports from the Arab Republic of Egypt. A Review Under Existing Import Conditions for Citrus from Israel" . Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia. Caption: Gastropods, p. 12 and Appendix 2.
12. Reham Fathey Ali & Bernhard Hausdorf (2017). "First land snail records from Gebel Elba in southeastern Egypt-at the border between the Palearctic and Ethiopian regions". Check List 13(1): 2038. doi:https://doi.org/10.15560/13.1.2038