List of non-marine molluscs of Slovakia

Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247^[1] species of molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses.^[2]

There are a total of 219^[1] species of gastropods, which breaks down to 51^[1] species of freshwater gastropods, and 168^[1] species of land gastropods, plus 28^[1] species of bivalves living in the wild.

There are 8 non-indigenous gastropod species (3 freshwater and 5 land species) and 3 species of bivalves in the wild in Slovakia. This is a total of 6 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.

Summary table of number of species

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	Slovakia
freshwater gastropods	51^[1]
land gastropods	168^[1]
gastropods altogether	219^[1]
bivalves	28^[1]
molluscs altogether	247^[1]
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild	3 freshwater and 5 land
non-indigenous synantrop gastropods	9
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild	3
non-indigenous synantrop bivalves	0
non-indigenous molluscs altogether	20

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There are 2 extinct species in Slovakia (locally extinct): Theodoxus transversalis and Esperiana esperi.^{[citation needed]}

There are endemic species of molluscs in Slovakia:

Alzoniella slovenica in Slovakia (and in Moravia in the Czech Republic too)
Alopia bielzii clathrata (Rossmässler, 1857)
Deroceras fatrense

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List of non-marine molluscs of Slovakia

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Freshwater gastropods

Land gastropods

Freshwater bivalves

Synanthropic molluscs

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