List of non-marine molluscs of Bulgaria

There are numerous species of molluscs living in the wild in Bulgaria. This list covers only the non-marine species.

Currently the list includes only the names of the land snails, the terrestrial gastropod molluscs.

Contents

1 Freshwater gastropods
2 Land gastropods
3 Freshwater bivalves
4 References
5 See also
6 Further reading

Freshwater gastropods

Theodoxus transversalis (Pfeiffer, 1828)^[1]

Bythinella austriaca (von Frauenfeld, 1857)
Bythinella hansboetersi Glöer & Pešić, 2006^[2]
Bythinella cf. opaca (Gallenstein 1848) - since 2008^[3]

Land gastropods

Acicula similis (Reinhardt, 1880)
Platyla orthostoma Jankiewicz, 1979

Pomatias elegans (Müller, 1774)
Pomatias rivulare (Eichwald, 1829)

Carychium tridentatum (Risso, 1826)

Sphyradium doliolum (Bruguiere, 1792)

Chondrina avenacea (Bruguière, 1729)

Pyramidula pusilla (Vallot, 1801)

Acanthinula aculeata (Müller, 1774)

Truncatellina claustralis (Gredler, 1856)
Truncatellina cylindrica (Ferussac, 1807)
Vertigo alpestris (Alder, 1830)

Buliminidae

Chondrula tridens (Müller, 1774)
Merdigera obscura (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Zebrina detrita (O. F. Müller, 1774), Zebrina detrita detrita (Müller, 1774), Zebrina detrita inflata (Kobelt, 1877)

Cochlodina laminata (Montagu, 1803)
Macedonica marginata (Rossmässler, 1835)
Macedonica pirinensis Jaeckel, 1954
Carinigera schuetti Brandt, 1962
Mentissela rebeli (Sturany, 1897)
Laciniaria plicata (Draparnaud, 1801)
Balea biplicata (Montagu, 1803)
Laciniaria plicata (Draparnaud, 1801)
Bulgarica denticulata, 'Bulgarica denticulata thessalonica (Rossmässler, 1839)

Succinea putris (Linnaeus, 1758)^[4]
Succinella oblonga (Draparnaud, 1801) - synonym: Succinea oblonga Draparnaud, 1801^[4]
Oxyloma elegans (Risso, 1826)^[4]
Oxyloma sarsii (Esmark, 1886)^[4]
Oxyloma dunkeri (L. Pfeiffer, 1865)^[4]

Punctum pygmaeum (Draparnaud, 1801)

Euconulus fulvus (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Aegopinella pura (Alder, 1830)
Aegopinella minor (Stabile, 1864)
Oxychilus investigatus Riedel, 1993
Oxychilus glaber (Rossmässler, 1835)
Oxychilus inopinatus (Uličný, 1887)

Pristilomatidae

Vitrea bulgarica Damjanov and Pintér, 1969
Vitrea diaphana (Studer, 1820)
Vitrea vereae Irikov, Georgiev & Riedel, 2004^[5]

Vitrina pellucida (Müller, 1774)
Oligolimax annularia (Studer, 1820)

Daudebardiidae

Daudebardia rufa (Draparnaud, 1805)

Tandonia budapestensis (Hazay, 1881)
Tandonia cristata (Kaleniczenko, 1851)
Tandonia kusceri (H. Wagner, 1931)
Tandonia serbica (Wagner, 1931)

Limax cinereoniger Wolf, 1803
Limax maximus Linnaeus, 1758

Deroceras reticulatum (Müller, 1774)
Deroceras sturanyi (Simroth, 1894)

Arion silvaticus Lohmander, 1937
Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805)

Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Soosia diodonta (Férussac, 1821)^[6]
Lindholmiola girva (Friveldszcky, 1835)
Lindholmiola pirinensis Jaeckel, 1954

Trichia erjaveci Brusina, 1870
Monacha cartusiana (Müller, 1774)
Xerolenta macedonica Hesse, 1928
Xerolenta obvia (Menke, 1828)
Monachoides incarnatus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Euomphalia strigella (Draparnaud, 1801)

Cattania haberhaueri (Sturany, 1897)
Cattania rumelica (Rossmässler, 1838)
Helicigona trizona (Rossmassler, 1835)
Cepaea vindobonensis (Ferussac, 1821)
Helix lucorum Linnaeus, 1757
Helix philibinensis Rossmässler, 1839

Freshwater bivalves

References

^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Theodoxus transversalis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 27 April 2011.
^ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2006). "Bythinella hansboetersi n. sp., a new species from Bulgaria". Heldia 6(3/4): 11-15.
^ Georgiev D. & Stoycheva S. (2008). "A record of Bythinella cf. opaca (Gallenstein 1848) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae) in Bulgaria". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 7: 51-54. PDF.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.
^ Irikov A., Georgiev D. & Riedel A. (2004). "A new species of the genus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae)". Folia Malacologica 12(2): 79-81.
^ Georgiev D. & Stoycheva S. (2007). "A New Finding of Soosia diodonta (Férussac, 1821) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicodontidae) in Bulgaria]. Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 6: 35-37. PDF.

See also

Fauna of Bulgaria

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

List of non-marine molluscs of Romania
List of non-marine molluscs of Serbia
List of non-marine molluscs of the Republic of Macedonia
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece
List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey

Further reading

(Bulgarian) Damjanov S. & Likharev I. (1975). Fauna Bulgarica, 5. Terrestrial snails (Gastropoda terrestria). Marin Drinov Publ., Sofia, 425 pp.
Dedov I. (1998). "Annotated check-list of the Bulgarian terrestrial snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". Linzer Biol. Beitr. 30(2): 745-765.
(Bulgarian) Hubenov Z. (2005). Malacofaunistic diversity of Bulgaria. In: Petrova A. (ed.) Current state of Bulgarian biodiversity – problems and perspectives. Bulgarian Bioplatform, Sofia, 199-246.
Hubenov Z. (2007). "Fauna and Zoogeography of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca) in Bulgaria". 141-198. In: Fet V. & Popov A. (eds.) Biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. Monographiae Biologicae 82. ISBN 978-1-4020-4417-5.
Wiktor A. (1983). "The slugs of Bulgaria (Arionidae, Milacidae, Limacidae, Agriolimacidae – Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Annales Zoologici 37(3): 71-206.