List of non-marine molluscs of Madeira

The non-marine molluscs of Madeira are a part of the molluscan fauna of Madeira (wildlife of Madeira). This list includes whole Madeira Autonomous Region, that includes Madeira Island, Porto Santo Island, Desertas Islands and Savage Islands.

Location of Madeira

A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Madeira.

There are 56 species of gastropods: ?? species of freshwater gastropods, 56[1] species of land gastropods (land snails) and ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.

The degree of endemism for the area of Madeira is about 84%.[1]


Summary table of number of species

(Summary table is based on species counted in this list and include also those ones with question marks)

Madeira
freshwater gastropods ??
land gastropods 56 species of land snails[1]
gastropods altogether 56
bivalves ??
molluscs altogether 56
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild ?? freshwater and ?? land
non-indigenous hot-house alien gastropods ?
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild ?
non-indigenous hot-house alien bivalves ?
non-indigenous molluscs altogether ?

Freshwater gastropods

Land gastropods

Discidae

Ferussaciidae

Lauriidae

Hygromiidae

Helicidae

  • Leptaxis simia hyaena (R. T. Lowe, 1852) - The subspecies Leptaxis simia hyaena is globally extinct from Bugio, Madeira[9]

Bivalvia

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References
  1. Cameron R. A. D., Cook L. M. & Hallows J. D. (29 March 1996). "Land Snails on Porto Santo: Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Radiation". Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 351(1337): 309-327. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0025, JSTOR.
  2. Seddon M. B. (2000). "Discus guerinianus". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
  3. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Amphorella iridescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  4. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Amphorella melampoides. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  5. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Amphorella producta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  6. Seddon M. B. (2000). Cecilioides eulima. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  7. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Cecilioides nyctelia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  8. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Cylichnidia ovuliformis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  9. Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on p. 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
  10. Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). Caseolus commixtus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  11. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Discula bulweri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  12. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Discula cheiranthicola". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. Downloaded on 15 June 2010.
  13. Seddon M. B. (1996). "Discula tabellata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
  14. Seddon M. B. (1996). "Geomitra moniziana". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 June 2010.
  15. Seddon M.B. (1996). "Geomitra tiarella". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 June 2010.
  16. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Hystricella bicarinata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 June 2010.
  17. Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella echinulata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
  18. Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella oxytropis". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
  19. Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella turricula". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 7 May 2010.
  20. Seddon M. B. (2000). "Serratorotula coronata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 June 2010.

Further reading
  • Cameron R. A. D., Laurence M. Cook L. M., Goodfriend G. A. & Seddon M. B. (2006). "Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago: change and stasis in Pleistocene to recent times". Malacologia 49(1): 25–59. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25.
  • Cameron R. A. D., da Cunha R.M.T. & Martins A. M. F. (2007). "Chance and necessity: land-snail faunas of São Miguel, Azores, compared with those of Madeira." Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 11–21. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyl027
  • Cameron R. A. D., Cook L. M. & Gao G. (1996). "Variation in snail species widespread on Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago." Journal of Molluscan Studies 62: 143–150. abstract.
  • Cockerell T. D. A. (May–June 1922). "Porto Santo and its snails". Natural History, New York. 22(3): 268-270.
  • Seddon M. B. (2008). "The landsnails of Madeira. An illustrated compendium of the landsnails and slugs of the Madeiran archipelago. Studies in Biodiversity and Systematics of Terrestrial Organisms from the National Museum of Wales". BIOTIR Reports 2: 204 pp. ISBN 978-0-7200-0585-1.
    • book review: Cameron R. A. D. (2009). Folia Malacologica 17(1): 45–47. abstract
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