List of non-marine molluscs of Vietnam

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Location of Vietnam

The non-marine molluscs of Vietnam are a part of the molluscan fauna of Vietnam (wildlife of Vietnam). A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Vietnam.[1]

There are good reasons to suppose that Vietnam, with a surface of 332,000 km2, a large variety of habitats, and many different limestone 'islands' that differ from each other in faunal composition,[2] will have a rich diversity of terrestrial molluscs.[3] Numerous non-marine mollusc species, including more than 850 species of land gastropods,[4] have been described from the country but many others still await discovery and description.[3]

Freshwater gastropods in Vietnam include:

Neritidae

Ampullariidae

Viviparidae

Pachychilidae

Paludomidae

Potamididae (brackish water snails)

Thiaridae

Assimineidae

Bithyniidae

Pomatiopsidae

Stenothyridae

Iravadiidae (marine/brackish)

Buccinidae

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Vietnam include:

Specimens of Cyclophorus phongnhakebangensis (a: holotype, b and c: paratypes; scale bar: 10 mm)

Cyclophoridae

Diplommatinidae

Pupinidae

Helicinidae

Hydrocenidae

A shell of Leptacme cuongi

Clausiliidae

Helicarionidae

Streptaxidae - 39 species of Streptaxidae are known from Vietnam[23]

Plectopylidae - 16 species are known from Vietnam[26]

Gudeodiscus messageri

Philomycidae

Ariophantidae

Agriolimacidae

Camaenidae

Freshwater bivalves

Freshwater bivalves in Vietnam include:

See also

References

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