List of non-marine molluscs of India

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

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There are 5070 species of marine and non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India.[1] There are 3371 species of marine molluscs in India.[2]

There are 1671 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. This includes 1488 terrestrial species in 140 genera and 183 freshwater species in 53 genera.[2]

There are a total of species of gastropods, which breaks down to ?? species of freshwater gastropods, and 1488 species of land gastropods, plus ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.

Summary table of number of species
India
freshwater gastropods ??
land gastropods 1488 (??? species of snails and ??? species of slugs)
gastropods altogether ???
bivalves ??
non-marine molluscs altogether 1671
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild ? freshwater and ? land
non-indigenous synanthropic gastropods ?
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild ?
non-indigenous synanthropic bivalves ?
non-indigenous molluscs altogether ?

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

Viviparidae

Ampullariidae

  • Pila globosa (Swainson, 1822) – including varieties incrassatula (Nevill) and minor (Nevill)[3]
  • Pila olea (Reeve)[3]
  • Pila conica (Gray) – including variety compacta Reeve[3]
  • Pila theobaldi (Hanley)[3]
  • Pila virens (Lamarck)[3]
  • Pila saxea (Reeve)[3]

Valvatidae

Littorinidae

Pomatiopsidae

Hydrobiidae

  • Mysorella costigera (Kuster)

Assimineidae

Thiaridae

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods
An unidentified snail from Nandi Hills, India.
A sinistral snail from Torna Fort, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
an unidentified gastropod from Kodachadri, southwestern India
an unidentified gastropod from India
closeup to an unidentified gastropod from India
an unidentified gastropod from India. This snail has the caudal mucous pit on its tail end.

Species of gastropods of India include:[2][7][8][9]

Hydrocenidae

  • Georissa pyxis (Benson)[10]

Helicinidae

  • Pleuropoma andamanica (Benson)[10]
  • Pleuropoma arakanensis (Blanford)[10]
  • Pleuropoma dunkeri (Zelebor)[10]
  • Pleuropoma nicobarica (Pfeiffer)[10]
  • Pleropoma rogersi (Bourne)[10]
  • Pleuropoma scrupula (Benson)[10]
  • Sulfurina behniana (Pfeiffer)[10]
  • Sulfurina bensoni Wagner[10]
  • Sulfurina zelebori (Pfeiffer)[10]

Achatinidae

Camaenidae

Cerastidae

  • Rhachis bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Rhachis praetermissus (Blanford, 1861)
  • Rhachis pulcher (Gray, 1825)
  • Rhachis punctatus (Anton, 1839)

Charopidae

  • Ruthvenia retifera (Pfeiffer, 1845)

Cyclophoridae

  • Alycaeus expatriatus Blanford
  • Cyclophorus altivagus (Benson, 1854)
  • Cyclophorus stenomphalus (Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Cyclophorus indicus (Deshayes, 1832)
  • Cyclophorus nilagiricus (Benson, 1852)
  • Cyathopoma atrosetosum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma filocinctum (Benson)
  • Cyathopoma latilabrie (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma nitidum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma ovatum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Cyathopoma trochlea (Benson, 1851)
  • Cyathopoma wynaadense (Blanford, 1868)
  • Mychopoma seticinctum (Beddome, 1875)
  • Theobaldius tristis (Blanford, 1869)
  • Theobaldius ravidus (Benson, 1851)
  • Theobaldius stenostoma (Sowerby)
  • Tortulosa recurvatus (Pfeiffer)
  • Alycaeus expatriatus (Blanford, 1860)
  • Alycaeus footei (Blanford, 1861)
  • Pterocyclus bilabiatus (Sowerby, 1843)
  • Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus (G. Nevill, 1881)
  • Pterocyclus nanus (Benson, 1851)
  • Pterocyclus comatus (Mollendorff, 1897)
  • Ditropis
  • Japonia
  • Craspedotropis bilirata (Beddome, 1875)
  • Craspedotropis cuspidata (Benson, 1851)
  • Leptopomoides valvatus (Mollendroff, 1897)

Diplommatinidae

  • Nicida anamullayana (Beddome, 1875)
  • Nicida liricincta (Blanford, 1868)
  • Nicida nilgirica (Blanford, 1860)
  • Nicida nitidula (Blanford, 1868)
  • Nicida subovata (Beddome, 1875)
  • Opisthostoma deccanense (Beddome, 1875)
  • Opisthostoma fairbanki (Blanford, 1866)
  • Ophisthostoma macrostoma (Blanford, 1869)
  • Diplommatina canarica (Beddome, 1875)

Endodontidae

  • Philalanka bidenticulata (Benson, 1852)
  • Philalanka daghoba (Blanford, 1861)
  • Philalanka quinquilirata (Gude, 1914)
  • Thysanota guerini (Pfeiffer, 1842)
  • Ruthvenia retifera (Pfeiffer, 1845)

Enidae

Staffordiidae – this family lives only in India[11]

Helicarionidae

  • Kaliella barrackporensis (Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Kaliella sigurensis (Godwin-Austen, 1882)
  • Sitala liricincta (Stolickzka, 1871)
  • Sitala palmaria (Benson, 1864)
  • Sitala denselirata (Preston, 1908)
Indrella ampulla is a large tropical snail from the Western Ghats of India.

Ariophantidae

  • Ariophanta canarica (Blanford, 1901)
  • Ariophanta cysis (Benson, 1852)
  • Ariophanta immerita (Blanford, 1870)
  • Ariophanta interrupta (Benson, 1834)
  • Ariophanta kadapaensis Nevill
  • Ariophanta thyreus (Benson, 1852)
  • Cryptozona albata (Blanford, 1880) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona belangeri (Deshayes, 1834) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona bistrialis (Beck) (subgenus Xestina)
  • Cryptozona ligulata (Ferussac)
  • Cryptozona maderaspatana (Gray, 1834) (subgenus Nilgiria)
  • Cryptozona semirugata (Beck, 1837) (subgenus Nilgiria)
  • Cryptozona sisparica (Blanford, 1866)
  • Cryptozona solata (Benson, 1848)
  • Euplecta acuducta (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta cacuminifera (Benson, 1850)
  • Euplecta fluctuosa (Blanford, 1901)
  • Euplecta hyphasma (Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Euplecta granulifera (Blanford, 1901)
  • Euplecta indica (Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Euplecta mucronifera (H. Adams, 1869)
  • Euplecta semidecussata (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Euplecta subdecussata (Pfeiffer)
  • Euplecta travancorica (Benson, 1865)
  • Hemiplecta beddomii (Blanford, 1874)
  • Macrochlamys aulopsis (Benson, 1863)
  • Macrochlamys indica
  • Macrochlamys lixa (Blanford, 1866)
  • Macrochlamys prava (Blanford, 1904)
  • Macrochlamys vilipensa (Benson, 1853)
  • Macrochlamys woodiana (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Indrella ampulla (Benson, 1850)
A slug from the Western Ghats of India. The species is tentatively identified as Mariaella dussumieri, family Ariophantidae

Pupillidae

Pyramidulidae

Streptaxidae

  • Streptaxis canaricus (Blanford, 1869)
  • Streptaxis concinnus (Blanford, 1880)
  • Streptaxis peroteti (Petit, 1841)
  • Streptaxis scalptus (Blanford, 1899)
  • Streptaxis subacutus (Blanford, 1899)
  • Gluella bicolor (Hutton, 1834)
  • Gluella canarica (Blanford, 1880)
  • Gluella exilis (Blanford, 1880)
  • Gluella turricula (Blanford, 1899)
  • Huttonella bicolor (Hutton)
  • Ennea

Diapheridae

Succineidae

  • Succinea baconi (Pfeiffer, 1854)
  • Succinea gravelyi Rao, 1924
  • Succinea raoi (Subba Rao & Mitra, 1976)
  • Succinea subgranosa (Pfeiffer, 1849)

Subulinidae

Subulina octona
  • Opeas gracilis (Hutton, 1834)
  • Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Zootecus insularis (Ehrenberg, 1831)
  • Glessula canarica (Beddome, 1906)
  • Glessula chessoni (Benson, 1860)
  • Glessula inornata (Pfeiffer, 1851)
  • Glessula mullorum (Blanford, 1861)
  • Glessula oreas (Reeve, 1850)
  • Glessula orophila (Reeve, 1849)
  • Glessula perrotteti (Pfeiffer, 1842)
  • Glessula pseudoreas (Nevill, 1881)
  • Glessula subserena (Beddome, 1906)
  • Glessula tenuispira (Benson, 1836)
  • Glessula textilis (Blanford, 1866)
  • Glessula tornensis (Blanford, 1870)
  • Lamellaxis gracile (Hutton)
  • Zootecus chion (Pfeiffer, 1856)

Valloniidae

Veronicellidae

  • Vaginula alte Férussac, 1821 =? Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
  • Filicaulis (Lavecaulis) frauenfeldi (Semper, 1885) = Vaginula frauenfeldi Semper, 1885

Vertiginidae

  • Pupisoma evezardi (Blanford, 1875)

Pleurodontidae

  • Planispira fallaciosa (Férussac, 1821)
  • Planispira nilagerica (Pfeiffer, 1845)
  • Planispira vittata (Muller, 1774)

unsorted:

See also

References
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