The non-marine molluscs of Peru are a part of the molluscan fauna of Peru (wildlife of Peru).
A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Peru.
There are 852 species of gastropods (89 species of freshwater gastropods, 763 species of land gastropods) and 40 species of freshwater bivalves living in the wild.
There is altogether 129 species of freshwater molluscs in Peru.
Freshwater gastropods
Freshwater gastropods include:
Ampullariidae
Planorbidae
Lymnaeidae
Physidae
Land gastropods
There are other 30 genera of land gastropods, than mentioned below next to families, with 56 species.
Helicinidae - 2 genera, 25 species
Neocyclotidae - 4 genera, 20 species
Orthalicidae - without Bulimulinae has 4 genera and 18 species in Peru.
Orthalicidae, Bulimulinae - only Bulimulinae has 15 genera, 424 species in Peru
Veronicellidae
Subulinidae - 5 genera, 19 species
Clausiliidae - 14 genera, 75 species
Scolodontidae - 8 genera, 55 species
Charopidae - 3 genera, 13 species
Pleurodontidae - 2 genera, 13 species
Camaenidae - 2 genera, 12 species
Helminthoglyptidae - 2 genera, 33 species
Freshwater bivalves
Freshwater bivalves include:
Hyriidae
- Callonaia duprei (Recluz, 1843)
- Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819 - Castalia ambigua ambigua Lamarck, 1819
- Castalia multisulcata Hupé, 1857
- Castalia schombergiana Sowerby, 1869
- Castalia sulcata - Castalia sulcata orbygnyi Hupé & Deville, 1850
- Diplodon limensis (Kust-Chemnitz, 1851)
- Diplodon obsolescens Baker, 1914
- Diplodon suavidicus (Lea, 1856)
- Diplodontites cookei Kust & Chemnitz, 1851
- Paxyodon syrmathophorus Meuschen, 1781
- Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817
- Triplodon corrugatus (Lamarck, 1819)
Mycetopodidae
- Anodonta solidula Lamarck, 1819
- Anodonta subsinuata Phillippi, 1869
- Anodonta subrostrata Phillippi, 1869
- Anodonta ucayalensis Phillippi, 1869
- Anodontites elongatus (Swainson, 1823)
- Anodontites ensiformis (Spix & Wagner, 1827)
- Anodontites incarum (Philippi, 1869)
- Anodontites tenebricosa (Lea, 1834)
- Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819) - Anodontites trapesialis trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819)
- Anodontites trapezeus (Spix, 1827)
- Anodontites trigonus (Spix, 1827) - Anodontites trigonus trigonus (Spix, 1827)
- Anodontites weirauchi Hass, 1930
- Iheringiella sp.
- Leila blainvilliana (Lea, 1834)
- Leila esula (Orbigny, 1835)
- Monocondylaea semisulcata Adams, 1870
- Mycetopoda siliquosa Spix, 1827
- Mycetopoda soleniformis Orbigny, 1835
- Mycetopodella falcata (Higgins, 1868)
- Tamsiella sp.
Etheriidae
Sphaeriidae
Corbiculidae
See also
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
References
External links
- Paredes C., Huamán P., Cardoso F., Vivar R. & Vera V. (1999). "Estado actual del conocimiento de los moluscos acuáticos en el Perú". Revista Peruana de BiologÃÂa 6(1): 5-47. .