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List of non-marine molluscs of Madagascar

The non-marine molluscs of Madagascar are a part of the molluscan fauna of Madagascar (wildlife of Madagascar).

In tropical rainforests of Madagascar, there is high diversity of species of terrestrial gastropods and many species has low population density, so many of them are "extremely rare".

About 50% of land snails in Madagascar are related to land snails in Africa.

Freshwater gastropods

Pachychilidae

the genus Madagasikara is endemic to Madagascar, 5 species

Planorbidae – there are 4 species of Bulinus:

Lymnaeidae

Land gastropods

Megalomastomatidae

Cyclophoridae the genus Boucardicus is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies

Assimineidae

Hydrocenidae

Pomatiidae

Veronicellidae

  • a veronicellid sp. or spp.

Orculidae

Succineidae

Subulinidae

Cerastidae

Achatinidae

Streptaxidae

Acavidae

Clavatoridae

Charopidae

Ariophantidae

  • Kalidos gora Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Kalidos manotrika Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Kalidos manta Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Kalidos maryannae Griffiths & Herbert, 2013

Helicarionidae

  • Kaliella crandalli Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Microcystis albosuturalis Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Microcystis fotsifotsy Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Microcystis vony Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Sitala burchi Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Sitala mavo Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010
  • Sitala stanisici Emberton, Slapcinsky, Campbell, Rakotondrazafy, Andriamiarison & Emberton, 2010

Freshwater bivalves

Sphaeriidae

See also

References

External links

  • Smith E. A. (1882). "A contribution to the Molluscan fauna of Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 375–390.
  • Van Damme D., Köehler F., Andriamaro L., Darwall W. & Máiz-Tomé L. (2018). The status and distribution of freshwater molluscs. pp. 29–41. In: Máiz-Tomé L., Sayer C. & Darwall W. (eds) (2018). Chapter 4. The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands hotspot. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. viii+128 pp. . PDF.