List of non-marine molluscs of Colombia

The non-marine molluscs of Colombia are a part of the molluscan fauna of Colombia.

There are 559 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in Colombia.^[1]

There are a total of ??? species of gastropods, which breaks down to ?? species of freshwater gastropods, and ??? species of land gastropods in 82 genera,^[2]^[3]^[4] plus ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.

There are 20 non-indigenous species of gastropods (? freshwater and 20 land species: 13 snails and 7 slugs)^[5] and ? species of bivalves in the wild in Colombia. This is a total of ? freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.

The non-marine mollusc fauna of Colombia is not fully surveyed yet. There are still 6 departments of Colombia, especially in the southwest, from which there are no records of land gastropods yet (as of 2008).^[2]^{[needs update]}

Summary table of number of species

	Colombia
freshwater gastropods	??
land gastropods	??? (82 genera)
gastropods altogether	???
bivalves	??
molluscs altogether	559^[1]
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild	? freshwater and 20 land
non-indigenous synantrop gastropods	?
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild	?
non-indigenous synantrop bivalves	?
non-indigenous molluscs altogether	20

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List of non-marine molluscs of Colombia

Land gastropods

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