List of non-marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

The non-marine mollusks of Puerto Rico are a part of the molluscan fauna of Puerto Rico. A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Puerto Rico.

Robert James Shuttleworth has described 3 genera and 25 species from Puerto Rico as new in 1854.

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

• Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822)

Land gastropods

Amphibulimidae

• genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 is endemic to Puerto Rico
• Gaeotis albopunctulata
• Gaeotis nigrolineata
• Gaeotis flavolineata
• Gaeotis malleata

Ellobiidae

• Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822
• Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856
• Melampus monile (Bruguiére, 1789)

Sagdidae

• Polydontes acutangula Burrow, 1815

Succineidae

• Succinea approximans Shuttleworth, 1854

Veronicellidae

• Diplosolenodes occidentalis (Guilding, 1851)
• Leidyula floridana (Leidy, 1851)
• Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer, 1868)
• Veronicella cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1840)
• Veronicella portoricensis (Semper, 1885)
• Veronicella tenax (Baker, 1931)

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of the United States

References

Further reading

• Grana F. A. (2007). "Nomenclatura de los organismos acuáticos y marinos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes. Vol. 6: Moluscos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes, parte 5". PDF.
• Harry H. W. (1964). "The foreign freshwater snails now established in Puerto Rico" (abstract). American Malac. Union. An. Rep. 1964: 4–5.
• Gundlach J. (1883). Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña [Notes for Puerto-Rican fauna]. Memorias de Historia Natural 4: 5-58; 5: 441–484.
• van der Schalie H. (1948). "The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 70: 134 pp. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56315 PDF.
• Richards C. S. (1964). "Puerto Rican species of Tropicorbis and Drepanotrema. Comparison with Australorbis glabratus and other Planorbids". Malacologia 2(1): 105–129.