The non-marine molluscs of India are a part of the molluscan fauna of India.
There are 5070 species of marine and non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. There are 3371 species of marine molluscs in India.
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.
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
Freshwater gastropods
Neritidae
- Neripteron auriculatum (Lamarck, 1816)
- Neripteron violaceum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Neritina pulligera (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Neritina platyconcha (Annandale & Prashad, 1919) â subgenus Dostia
- Neritina perottetiana (Recluz) â subgenus Vittina
- Neritina smithi (Wood, 1828) â subgenus Vittina
- Neritina turrita (Gmelin, 1791)
- Neritina variegata Lesson â subgenus Vittina
- Neritodryas subsulcata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)
- Theodoxus bicolor (Récluz, 1843) â subgenus Clithon
- Theodoxus corona (Linnaeus, 1758) â subgenus Clithon
- Theodoxus reticularis Sowerby, 1838 â subgenus Clithon
- Septaria lineata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Septaria porcellana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Viviparidae
Ampullariidae
Valvatidae
Littorinidae
Pomatiopsidae
Amnicolidae
Hydrobiidae
Assimineidae
Thiaridae
Lymnaeidae
Planorbidae
Land gastropods
Species of gastropods of India include:
Assimineidae
Hydrocenidae
Helicinidae
Achatinidae
Camaenidae
Cerastidae
Charopidae
Cyclophoridae
- Alycaeus expatriatus (Blanford, 1860)
- Alycaeus footei (Blanford, 1861)
- Craspedotropis bilirata (Beddome, 1875)
- Craspedotropis cuspidata (Benson, 1851)
- Cyathopoma atrosetosum (Beddome, 1875)
- Cyathopoma filocinctum (Benson, 1851)
- Cyathopoma latilabrie (Beddome, 1875)
- Cyathopoma nitidum (Beddome, 1875)
- Cyathopoma ovatum (Beddome, 1875)
- Cyathopoma trochlea (Benson, 1851)
- Cyathopoma wynaadense (Blanford, 1868)
- Cyclophorus altivagus (Benson, 1854)
- Cyclophorus bensoni (Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Cyclophorus cryptomphalus Benson, 1857
- Cyclophorus indicus (Deshayes, 1832)
- Cyclophorus malayanus (Benson, 1852)
- Cyclophorus nilagiricus (Benson, 1852)
- Cyclophorus siamensis (Sowerby, 1850)
- Cyclophorus stenomphalus (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Cyclophorus volvulus (O.F. Müller, 1774)
- Cyclophorus zebrinus (Benson, 1836)
- Leptopomoides valvatus (Mollendroff, 1897)
- Mychopoma seticinctum (Beddome, 1875)
- Pterocyclus bilabiatus (Sowerby, 1843)
- Pterocyclus comatus (Mollendorff, 1897)
- Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus (G. Nevill, 1881)
- Pterocyclus nanus (Benson, 1851)
- Scabrina phenotopicus (Benson, 1851
- Scabrina pinnulifer (Benson, 1857)
- Theobaldius ravidus (Benson, 1851)
- Theobaldius stenostoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1843)
- Theobaldius tristis (Blanford, 1869)
Pupinidae
Diplommatinidae
Endodontidae
Enidae
Staffordiidae â this family lives only in India
Helicarionidae
Ariophantidae
- Ariophanta canarica (Blanford, 1901)
- Ariophanta cysis (Benson, 1852)
- Ariophanta immerita (Blanford, 1870)
- Ariophanta interrupta (Benson, 1834)
- Ariophanta kadapaensis (Nevill, 1878)
- Ariophanta thyreus (Benson, 1852)
- Cryptozona albata (Blanford, 1880) (subgenus Xestina)
- Cryptozona belangeri (Deshayes, 1834) (subgenus Xestina)
- Cryptozona bistrialis (Beck) (subgenus Xestina)
- Cryptozona ligulata (Ferussac, 1821)
- 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, 1857)
- Euplecta travancorica (Benson, 1865)
- Hemiplecta beddomii (Blanford, 1874)
- Macrochlamys aulopsis (Benson, 1863)
- Macrochlamys indica Benson, 1832
- Macrochlamys lixa (Blanford, 1866)
- Macrochlamys prava (Blanford, 1904)
- Macrochlamys vilipensa (Benson, 1853)
- Macrochlamys woodiana (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- Indrella ampulla (Benson, 1850)
Pupillidae
Pyramidulidae
Streptaxidae
- Streptaxis canaricus (Blanford, 1869)
- Streptaxis concinnus (Blanford, 1880)
- Streptaxis peroteti (Petit, 1841)
- Streptaxis scalptus (Blanford, 1899)
- Streptaxis subacutus (Blanford, 1899)
- Gluella canarica (Blanford, 1880)
- Gluella exilis (Blanford, 1880)
- Gluella turricula (Blanford, 1899)
- Huttonella bicolor (Hutton)
- Ennea
- Perrottetia rajeshgopali Bhosale, Thackeray & Rowson, 2021
Diapheridae
Succineidae
Subulinidae
- 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, 1834)
- Zootecus chion (Pfeiffer, 1856)
Valloniidae
Veronicellidae
Vertiginidae
Pleurodontidae
unsorted:
See also
References
Further reading
(sorted chronologically)
- Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen 1920. Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean, supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. Volume III. Taylor & Francis, London. â The volume III. include Glessula species only.
- 1908âÂÂ1915. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca.
- Satyamurti S. T. 1960. Land and freshwater mollusca in the collection of the Madras Government museum. Natural History Section New Series, Vol. VI, No.4., 174 pp.
- Raut S. K. & Ghose K.C. 1984. Pestiferous land snails of India. Technical Monograph No. 11 Zool. Surv. India, 1âÂÂ151.
- Subba Rao, N.V., Thakur D. K. & Mitra S. C. 1989. Mollusca (Terrestrial). Fauna of Orissa Part â II. State fauna Series: 1 Ed: Director, Zoological Survey of India P., 253âÂÂ276.
- Subba Rao N.V. & Mitra S. C. 1993. Land Molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 126, 88 pp.
- H. Nesemann, S. Gopaö & K. S. Ravindra (2003) The Bivalvia of the Ganga River and adjacent stagnant water bodies in Patna (Bihar, India) with special reference on Unionacea. Acta Conchyliorum, 43 pages, include 9 tables, 31 figures.
- S. C. Mitra, A. Dey & Ramakrishna (2005) Pictorial handbook: Indian land snails . 4 + 344 pp.
- Nesemann H. & Sharma S., Sharma G., Khanal S. N., Pradhan B., Shah D. N. & Tachamo R. D. (2007) Aquatic Invertebrates of the Ganga River System, Vol. 1. (Mollusca, Annelida, Crustacea), 263 pp., 76 (12 colour) plates with 748 figures. .
- Ramakrishna & A. Dey (2007) Indian Freshwater Molluscs. 399 pp., 279 color figures in text, hardcover.
External links
- Sahyadri: Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System. issue 20. Mollusca.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090717093156/http://www.wii.gov.in/envis/rain_forest/chapter9.htm