List of non-marine molluscs of Mozambique

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Location of Mozambique

The list of non-marine molluscs of Mozambique is a list of freshwater and land species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of Mozambique (wildlife of Mozambique).

The terrestrial malacofauna of Mozambique is underreported and under-collected. As a result, on the whole exact data are scarce.[1]

For example, there are known 46 species of terrestrial gastropods from Cabo Delgado Province, north-eastern corner of Mozambique,[2] 28 species of terrestrial gastropods from Gorongosa National Park including its surroundings.[1]

Neritidae

Paludomidae

Viviparidae

Bithyniidae

Planorbidae

Assimineidae

Ellobiidae

Melanoides tuberculata is native to Mozambique

Thiaridae

drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum, a freshwater snail which is native to Mozambique

Ampullariidae

Lymnaeidae

Land gastropods

Pomatiidae

Succineidae

Cerastidae

Achatinidae

Subulinidae

Streptaxidae

Charopidae

Helicarionidae

Urocyclidae

Bivalves

See also

References

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