List of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe
The list of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe is a list of freshwater and land species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of Zimbabwe (wildlife of Zimbabwe).
Location of Zimbabwe
Freshwater gastropods
- Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845[1]
- Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2][1]
- Biomphalaria pfeifferi (Krauss, 1848)[1]
- Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831)[1]
- Bulinus globosus (Morelet, 1866)[1]
- Bulinus tropicus (Krauss, 1848)[2][1]
- Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
- Ceratophallus natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)[1]
- Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848)[1]
- Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
- Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879)[2]
- Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)
- Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)[3][1]
Land gastropods
- Oxyloma patentissima (Pfeiffer, 1853)[2]
- Succinea africana Krauss, 1848[4]
- Cochlicopa lubrica (Porro, 1838) - introduced[5]
- Gibbulinopsis fontana (Krauss, 1848)[4]
- Achatina connollyi Preston, 1912[4]
- Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)[4]
- Opeas lineare (Krauss, 1848)[4]
- Xerocerastus burchelli (J. E. Gray, 1834)[4]
- Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)[4]
- Tayloria gwandaensis (Preston, 1912)[4]
- Gymnarion chirindicus E. Binder, 1981[6]
- Gymnarion vumbae E. Binder, 1981[6]
- Polytoxon robustum (Simroth, 1896)[7]
- Thapsia pinguis (Krauss, 1848)[4]
- Trochonanina thermarum (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1909)[4]
- Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) - introduced[5]
See also
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
- List of non-marine molluscs of South Africa
- List of non-marine molluscs of Botswana
- List of non-marine molluscs of Zambia
- List of non-marine molluscs of Mozambique
References
- G. Chingwena, S. Mukaratirwa, M. Chimbari, T. K. Kristensen & H. Madsen (2004). "Population dynamics and ecology of freshwater gastropods in the highveld and lowveld regions of Zimbabwe, with emphasis on schistosome and amphistome intermediate hosts". African Zoology 39(1): 55-62.
- Brendonck L. et al. (2003). "The impact of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in a eutrophic subtropical impoundment (Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe). II. Species diversity". Arch. Hydrobiol. 158(3): 389-405. PDF Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- Appleton C., Ghamizi M., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Lymnaea natalensis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- van Bruggen, A. C. (1967). "Miscellanous Notes on southern African Gastropoda Euthyneura (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 91: 1–34.
- Gittenberger, E. (1981). "Cochlicopa lubricella and Helix aspersa as alien land snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia". Basteria. 45: 71–72.
- Binder, E. (1981). "Deux espèces de Gymnarion nouvelles des collections du Natal Museum (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Urocyclidae)". Annals of the Natal Museum. 24 (2): 483–486.
- Ben Rowson, David Herbert & E Fay Robertson (2016). "First reports of two terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata) from Southern Africa". Journal of Conchology 42(3): 11-15.
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