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.

Location of Puerto Rico

Robert James Shuttleworth has described 3 genera and 25 species from Puerto Rico as new in 1854.[1][2]

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

Land gastropods

Amphibulimidae

  • genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 is endemic to Puerto Rico[4]

Succineidae

Veronicellidae

See also
  • List of marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References
  1. Shuttleworth R. J. (1854). "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken der Insel Portorico". Mitteilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern Nr. 310-330: 33–56.
  2. "Taxa described as new in Shuttleworth, R. J. 1854 (n = 28)". AnimalBase, accessed 4 January 2011.
  3. Chaniotis B. N., Butler J. M., Ferguson F. F. & Jobin W. R. (1980). "Bionomics of Tarebia granifera (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Puerto Rico, an Asian vector of Paragonimiasis westermani". Caribbean Journal of Science 16: 81-89. PDF Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Notes on the Genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae)". Netherlands Journal of Zoology 24(3): 236-252. doi:10.1163/002829674X00057. PDF Archived 7 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. (in Spanish) Aguayo C. G. (1965). "Sobre el status de Veronicella portoricensis (Mollusca Pulmonata)". Caribbean Journal of Science 5(1-2): 25-28. PDF Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.

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.
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