List of non-marine molluscs of Slovakia explained

Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247[1] species of molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses.

There are a total of 219[1] species of gastropods, which breaks down to 51[1] species of freshwater gastropods, and 168[1] species of land gastropods, plus 28[1] species of bivalves living in the wild.

There are 8 non-indigenous gastropod species (3 freshwater and 5 land species) and 3 species of bivalves in the wild in Slovakia. This is a total of 6 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.

Summary table of number of species
Slovakia
freshwater gastropods51
land gastropods168
gastropods altogether219
bivalves28
molluscs altogether247
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild3 freshwater and 5 land
non-indigenous synantrop gastropods9
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild3
non-indigenous synantrop bivalves0
non-indigenous molluscs altogether20

There are 2 extinct species in Slovakia (locally extinct): Theodoxus transversalis and Esperiana esperi.

There are endemic species of molluscs in Slovakia:

History

Grid distribution maps of all species were made by Lisický (1991).[2]

A faunal list by Čejka et al. (2007)[3] included 245 species. A list by Horsák et al. (2010) included 247 species.[1]

Freshwater gastropods

The list is in zoological order rather than alphabetical order.[3] Freshwater gastropods in the Slovakia include:

Neritidae
Viviparidae
Thiaridae
Hydrobiidae
Amnicolidae
Lithoglyphidae
Bithyniidae
Valvatidae
Acroloxidae
Lymnaeidae
Physidae
Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Slovakia include:

Aciculidae
Ellobiidae
Cochlicopidae
Orculidae
Chondrinidae
Pupillidae
Argnidae
Pyramidulidae
Spelaeodiscidae
Valloniidae
Vertiginidae
Enidae
Clausiliidae
Succineidae
Ferussaciidae
Punctidae
Helicodiscidae
Discidae
Gastrodontidae
Euconulidae
Oxychilidae
Pristilomatidae
Vitrinidae
Milacidae
Limacidae
Agriolimacidae
Boettgerillidae
Arionidae
Bradybaenidae
Helicodontidae
Hygromiidae
Helicidae

Freshwater bivalves

Freshwater bivalves in Slovakia include:

Unionidae
Corbiculidae
Sphaeriidae
Dreissenidae

Synanthropic molluscs

These 9 species do not live in the wild or are not recorded in the wild yet, but they live in greenhouses and similar biotopes as "hothouse alien" species. All 9 of them are gastropods.

List (alphabetically according to scientific name):

See also

Undescribed species of Slovakia include Hauffenia sp. nov. (not counted in this list).

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  2. Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. Čejka T., Dvořák L., Horsák M. & Šteffek J. (2007). "Checklist of molluscs (Mollusca) in the Slovak Republic". Folia Malacologica 15(2): 49-58.
  4. Biologia, Bratislava . 561–562 . First records of Theodoxus fluviatilis and Sphaerium solidum (Mollusca) from Slovakia . Čejka . Tomáš . Michal Horsák . 57 . 5 . 2002.
  5. Biologia, Bratislava . 657–658 . First record of the New Zealand mollusc Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843), (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from the Slovak section of the Dunaj river . Čejka . Tomáš . 49 . 1994.
  6. Šteffek J. 1991. Mäkkýše (Mollusca) Pienin. 1. Rozbor publikovaných údajov a súčasné poznatky o druhovom zložení. Zborník prác o TANAP, vyd. Osveta Martin, 31: 68–74. (in Slovak)
  7. Jozef Grego & Peter Glöer (2019). "A new Bythinella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissooidea) in the Slovak Republic". Ecologica Montenegrina 21: 80-85.
  8. Škodová J. & Horsák M. (2010). "Zrnovka slatinná (Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871), Gastropoda) - staronový druh našich mokřadů. In: Bryja J. & Zasadil P. (eds.) Zoologické dny Praha 2010. Sborník abstraktů z konference 11.-12. února 2010. Ústav biologie obratlovců AV ČR, Brno, . Pages 214-215.
  9. Malakologický Bulletin . New records of mollusc species for Slovakia during the last 25 years . Čejka . Tomáš . Libor Dvořák . Michal Horsák . August 11, 2006 . sk, en.
  10. Horsák M. & Čejka T. 2008. Cecilioides petitiana in Slovakia – a second record after more than 60 years. Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 7: 15-16.
  11. Horsák M., Šteffek J., Čejka T., Ložek V. & Juřičková L. 2009. Occurrence of Lucilla scintilla (R.T. Lowe, 1852) and Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1890) in the Czech and Slovak Republics – with remarks how to distinguish these two non-native minute snails. Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 8: 24-27. Retrieved on 18 June 2009.
  12. Biologia, Bratislava . 475–476 . First record of the land snail Helicodiscus (Hebetodiscus) singleyanus inermis H. B. Baker, 1929 (Gastropoda, Punctidae) in Slovakia . Čejka . Tomáš . 55 . 2000.
  13. Folia Malacologica . 149–152 . Oxychilus (Mediterranea) hydatinus (Gastropoda: Zonitidae) new for Slovakia, with notes to its distribution in Hungary . Dvořák L., Horsák M. . Varga A. . amp. 12 . 2004. 3 . 10.12657/folmal.012.012 . free .
  14. Korábek O., Čejka T. & Juřičková L. (2016). "Tandonia kusceri (Pulmonata: Milacidae), a slug new for Slovakia". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 15: 3–8. PDF.
  15. Malakologický Bulletin . Prvý nález slizniaka Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894) na Podunajskej nížine [First record of the slug ''Deroceras turcicum'' in the Podunajská Nížina lowland] ]. Čejka . Tomáš . Libor Dvořák . Michal Horsák . July 2, 2004 . sk.
  16. Biologia, Bratislava . 942, 952 . First records of Corbicula fluminea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Slovakia with a note about its dispersion in Central Europe . Vrabec V. . Čejka T. Šporka F. . Hamerlík L. . Král D. . 58 . 2003.
  17. Šteffek J. (2005). "First record of Pisidium hibernicum (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Slovakia". Biologia, Bratislava, 60: 136.
  18. 917–918 . First record of Deroceras panormitanum (Gastropoda, Agriolimacidae) from Slovakia . Dvořák . Libor . Tomáš Čejka . Michal Horsák . 58 . 5 . 2003 . Biologia .

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