List of non-marine molluscs of Tanzania
The non-marine molluscs of Tanzania are a part of the molluscan fauna of Tanzania (wildlife of Tanzania).
A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Tanzania.
There are 417 species of land snails in Tanzania.[1]
Freshwater gastropods
Thiaridae
Lymnaeidae
Land gastropods
Land gastropods in Tanzania include:
Assimineidae - otherwise matine or salt marsh family, the terrestrial assimineid occur in Tanzania[4]
- “Assiminea” aurifera Preston, 1912 - previously Assimania aurifera[4]
Cyclophoridae
- Cyathopoma azaniense Verdcourt, 1978[4]
- Cyathopoma pembense Rowson, 2010 - endemic to Pemba Island[4]
Pomatiidae
- Tropidophora zanguebarica (Petit, 1850)[4]
Veronicellidae
Maizaniidae
- Maizania elatior (Martens, 1892)[1]
- Micromaizania volkensi (Martens, 1895)[1]
Succineidae
- Quickia concisa (Morelet, 1849)[1][4]
Valloniidae
- Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)[1]
Vertiginidae
- Nesopupa (Afripupa) bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873)[1]
- Nesopupa minutalis (Morelet, 1881)[4]
- Gastrocopta klunzingeri (Jickeli, 1873)[4]
Cerastidae
- Edouardia metula (Martens, 1895)[1]
- Gittenedouardia conulina (von Martens, 1869)[4]
- Rachis punctata (Anton, 1839)[4]
- Rhachidina braunsi (von Martens, 1869)[1][4]
Achatinidae
Ferussaciidae
- Cecilioides callipeplum (Connolly, 1923)[4]
- Cecilioides (Cecilioides) tribulationis (Preston, 1911)[1]
Micractaeonidae
Subulinidae
- Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)[4]
- Curvella subvirescens (E. A. Smith, 1890)[4]
- Kempioconcha terrulenta (Morelet, 1883)[1]
- Opeas delicatum Taylor, 1877[4]
- Opeas lamoense Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892[4]
- Pseudoglessula (Kempioconcha) subolivacea agg. (E. A. Smith, 1890)[4]
- Pseudopeas elgonense Connolly, 1923[1]
- Pseudopeas igembiense Connolly, 1923[4]
- Striosubulina striatella (Rang, 1831)[4]
- Subulina intermedia Taylor, 1877[4]
- Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789)[4]
- Subulina usambarica K. Pfeiffer - endemic[5]
- Subulona ischna (Pilsbry, 1919)[1]
- Subulona ordinaria Preston, 1910[4]
- Subulona pinguis (Martens, 1895)[1]
Streptaxidae
- Edentulina obesa (Taylor, 1877)[4]
- Edentulina usambarensis Bequaert & Clench - endemic[6]
- Gonaxis (Gonaxis) denticulatus (Dohrn, 1878)[4]
- Gonaxis usambarensis Verdcourt - endemic[7]
- Gonaxis vosseleri Thiele - endemic[6]
- “Gulella” (Aenigmigulella) aenigmatica (E. A. Smith, 1890)[4]
- Gulella baccata (Preston, 1913)[4]
- Gulella gwendolinae (Preston, 1910)[4]
- Gulella (Gulella) laevigata (Dohrn, 1865)[1]
- Gulella jod (Preston, 1910)[4]
- “Gulella” peakei van Bruggen, 1975[4]
- Gulella planidens (von Martens, 1892)[4]
- Gulella (Pupigulella) pupa (Thiele, 1911)[1]
- “Gulella” radius (Preston, 1910)[4]
- Gulella sexdentata (von Martens, 1869)[4]
- Gulella streptostelopsis van Bruggen, 2007[4]
- Ptychotrema (Ennea) pollonerae Preston, 1913[1]
- Streptostele (Raffraya) acicula (Morelet, 1877)[4]
- Streptostele (Raffraya) horei E. A. Smith, 1890[1]
- Tayloria amaniensis Verdcourt - endemic[8]
- Tayloria angustistriata K. Pfeiffer - endemic[9]
- Tayloria hyalinoides Thiele - endemic[10]
- Tayloria shimbiensis Connolly, 1923[4]
Punctidae
Charopidae
- Trachycystis lamellifera (E. A. Smith, 1903)[1]
Euconulidae
- Afroconulus iredalei (Preston, 1912)[1]
- Afroguppya quadrisculpta (Connolly, 1939)[4]
- Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)[1]
- Afropunctum seminium (Morelet, 1873)[1][4]
- Microcystina minima (H. Adams, 1867)[4]
Helicarionidae
Urocyclidae
Halolimnohelicidae
Freshwater bivalves
See also
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
oversea countries:
References
External links
- Emberton K. C., Pearce T. A., Kasigwa P. F., Tattersfield P. & Habibu Z. (1997). "High diversity and regional endemism in land snails of eastern Tanzania". Biodiversity and Conservation 6(8): 1123-1136. doi:10.1023/A:1018384101789.
- Tattersfield P., Seddon M. B., Meena C., Kayumbo N. & Kasigwa P. (1998). "Ecology and Conservation of the Land-Snails of the Eastern Arc Mountains". Journal of East African Natural History 87(1): 119-138. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(1998)87[119:EACOTL]2.0.CO;2.
- Tattersfield P., Seddon M. B., Ngereza C. & Rowson B. (2006). "Elevational variation in diversity and composition of land-snail faunas in a Tanzanian forest". African Journal of Ecology 44(1): 47-60. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00612.x.