List of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe explained

The list of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe is a list of freshwater and land species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of Zimbabwe (wildlife of Zimbabwe).

Freshwater gastropods

Ampullariidae

• Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845

Viviparidae

• Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)

Thiaridae

• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Planorbidae

• Biomphalaria pfeifferi (Krauss, 1848)
• Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831)^[1]
• Bulinus globosus (Morelet, 1866)^[1]
• Bulinus tropicus (Krauss, 1848)^[1]
• Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
• Ceratophallus natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)^[1]
• Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848)^[1]
• Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
• Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879)

Lymnaeidae

• Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)
• Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)^{[2] [1]}

Land gastropods

Succineidae

• Oxyloma patentissima (Pfeiffer, 1853)^[3]
• Succinea africana Krauss, 1848^[4]

Cochlicopidae

• Cochlicopa lubrica (Porro, 1838) - introduced^[5]

Pupillidae

• Gibbulinopsis fontana (Krauss, 1848)^[4]

Cerastidae

• Rachis jejuna (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)^[4]
• Rhachistia sticta (E. von Martens, 1860)^[4]

Achatinidae

• Achatina connollyi Preston, 1912^[4]
• Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)^[4]
• Opeas lineare (Krauss, 1848)^[4]
• Xerocerastus burchelli (J. E. Gray, 1834)^[4]

Euconulidae

• Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)^[4]

Streptaxidae

• Tayloria gwandaensis (Preston, 1912)^[4]

Urocyclidae

• Gymnarion chirindicus E. Binder, 1981^[6]
• Gymnarion vumbae E. Binder, 1981^[6]
• Polytoxon robustum (Simroth, 1896)^[7]
• Thapsia pinguis (Krauss, 1848)^[4]
• Trochonanina thermarum (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1909)^[4]

Helicidae

• Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) - introduced^[5]

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of South Africa
• List of non-marine molluscs of Botswana
• List of non-marine molluscs of Zambia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Mozambique

Notes and References

1. G. Chingwena, S. Mukaratirwa, M. Chimbari, T. K. Kristensen & H. Madsen (2004). "Population dynamics and ecology of freshwater gastropods in the highveld and lowveld regions of Zimbabwe, with emphasis on schistosome and amphistome intermediate hosts". African Zoology 39(1): 55-62.
2. 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. . Retrieved 4 December 2010.
3. Brendonck L. et al. (2003). "The impact of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in a eutrophic subtropical impoundment (Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe). II. Species diversity". Arch. Hydrobiol. 158(3): 389-405. PDF .
4. van Bruggen . A. C. . Miscellanous Notes on southern African Gastropoda Euthyneura (Mollusca) . Zoologische Verhandelingen . 1967 . 91 . 1–34.
5. Gittenberger . E. . Cochlicopa lubricella and Helix aspersa as alien land snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia . Basteria . 1981 . 45 . 71–72.
6. Binder . E. . Deux espèces de Gymnarion nouvelles des collections du Natal Museum (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Urocyclidae) . Annals of the Natal Museum . 1981 . 24 . 2 . 483–486.
7. Ben Rowson, David Herbert & E Fay Robertson (2016). "First reports of two terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata) from Southern Africa". Journal of Conchology 42(3): 11-15.