List of non-marine molluscs of Germany

This list of non-marine molluscs of Germany is a list of the molluscs that live in Germany, except for the marine (saltwater) species. In other words, this list includes the land snails and slugs, the freshwater snails and the freshwater clams and mussels.

Location of Germany

There are 390 species (including subspecies)[1] of molluscs living in the wild in Germany. In addition there is at least 1 gastropod species that lives only in greenhouses.

There are ??? species of gastropods (69 species of freshwater gastropods, ??? species of land gastropods) and 36 species of bivalves living in the wild.

There are 8 introduced species of gastropods (7 freshwater and 1 land species) and 1 species of non-indigenous bivalve living in the wild in Germany. That makes a total of 8 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.

Summary table of number of species
Germany
freshwater gastropods 69
land gastropods ???
gastropods altogether ???
bivalves 36
molluscs altogether 390 (including subspecies)
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild 7 freshwater and 1 land
non-indigenous synantrop gastropods 1
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild 1
non-indigenous synantrop bivalves no
non-indigenous molluscs altogether in the wild 9


There are only orders, families and species in the list. The German name is in brackets. Non-indigenous species only occurring greenhouses in Germany are noted separately, below the list.

Main source for the list of freshwater species is book Süsswassermollusken by Glöer & Meier-Brook.[2]

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

Viviparidae

Hydrobiidae

Lithoglyphidae

Amnicolidae

Bithyniidae

Valvatidae

Acroloxidae

Lymnaeidae

Physidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Aciculidae

  • Acicula fusca (Montagu, 1803)
  • Acicula lineata (Draparnaud, 1801)
  • Acicula lioneolata (Pini, 1884)
  • Platyla gracilis (Clessin, 1877)
  • Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840)
  • Renea veneta (Pirona, 1865)

Ellobiidae

Succineaidae Succinea putris Linnaeus, 1758

Valloniidae

Pupillidae

Vertiginidae

Oxychilidae

Arionidae

Hygromiidae

Shell of Fruticola fruticum

Bradybaenidae

  • Fruticola fruticum (O.F. Müller, 1774)

Helicidae

  • Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Causa holoserica (Studer, 1820)
  • Cepaea hortensis (O.F. Müller, 1774)
  • Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cepaea sylvatica (Draparnaud, 1801)* - extinct
  • Cepaea vindobonensis (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)
  • Chilostoma achates (Rossmässler, 1834)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum baldense (Rossmässler, 1839)* - non-indigenous
  • Chilostoma cingulatum peregrini Falkner, 1998
  • Cornu aspersum (O.F. Müller, 1774)* - non-indigenous
  • Drobacia banatica (Rossmässler, 1838)* - non-indigenous
  • Faustina illyrica (Stabille, 1884)* - non-indigenous
  • Helix pomatia (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Helicigona lapicida (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Isognomostoma isognomostomos (Schröter, 1784)

Bivalves

Margaritiferidae

  • Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unionidae

  • Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 - Unio crassus crassus, Unio crassus nanus, Unio crassus cytherea
  • Unio mancus Lamarck, 1819
  • Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788
  • Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler, 1835) - Pseudanodonta complanata elongata, Pseudanodonta complanata klettii, Pseudanodonta complanata küsteri
  • Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) - non-indigenous

Corbiculidae

Corbicula fluminalis

Sphaeriidae

Dreissenidae

  • Congeria leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831) - synonym Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831)
  • Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)

List of synanthropic species in Germany

Those species do not live in the wild, or are not recorded in the wild yet; they live in greenhouses and similar habitats.

List (alphabetically according to the scientific name):

  • Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[9]

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References
  1. List of German land and freshwater molluscs including their common names Diskussionsfassung (in Bearbeitung)
  2. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  3. Dillon, Robert T.; Wethington, Amy R.; Rhett, J. Matthew; Smith, Thomas P. (2005). "Populations of the European freshwater pulmonate Physa acuta are not reproductively isolated from American Physa heterostropha or Physa integra". Invertebrate Biology. 121 (3): 226–234. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2002.tb00062.x.
  4. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2. p. 58.
  5. "Species summary for Pupilla bigranata ". AnimalBase. Last modified 30-12-2008, accessed 30 July 2010.
  6. von Proschwitz, Ted; Schander, Christoffer; Jueg, Uwe; Thorkildsen, Solveig (2009). "Morphology, ecology and DNA-barcoding distinguish Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871) from Pupilla muscorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pulmonata: Pupillidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 75 (4): 315–322. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp038.
  7. "Species summary for Pupilla triplicata". AnimalBase. Last modified 15-04-2010, accessed 31 July 2010.
  8. Hutchinson, J.M.C.; Schlitt, B.; Reise, H. "Monacha claustralis (Rossmässler 1834), a hygromiid snail new to Germany" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 100: 17–22.
  9. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2. p. 32.

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