List of non-marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

Location of Puerto Rico

The non-marine mollusks of Puerto Rico are a part of the molluscan fauna of Puerto Rico. A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Puerto Rico.

Robert James Shuttleworth has described 3 genera and 25 species from Puerto Rico as new in 1854.^[1][2]

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

• Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822)^[3]

Land gastropods

Amphibulimidae

• genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 is endemic to Puerto Rico^[4]

Succineidae

• Succinea approximans Shuttleworth, 1854^[1]

Veronicellidae

• Veronicella portoricensis (Semper, 1885)^[5]

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Puerto Rico

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of the United States
• List of non-marine molluscs of Dominican Republic
• List of non-marine molluscs of the Virgin Islands

References

1. Shuttleworth R. J. (1854). "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken der Insel Portorico". Mitteilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern Nr. 310-330: 33-56.
2. "Taxa described as new in Shuttleworth, R. J. 1854 (n = 28)". AnimalBase, accessed 4 January 2011.
3. Chaniotis B. N., Butler J. M., Ferguson F. F. & Jobin W. R. (1980). "Bionomics of Tarebia granifera (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Puerto Rico, an Asian vector of Paragonimiasis westermani". Caribbean Journal of Science 16: 81-89. PDF
4. Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Notes On the Genus Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae)". Netherlands Journal of Zoology 24(3): 236-252. doi:10.1163/002829674X00057. PDF.
5. (Spanish) Aguayo C. G. (1965). "Sobre el status de Veronicella portoricensis (Mollusca Pulmonata)". Caribbean Journal of Science 5(1-2): 25-28. PDF.

Further reading

• Grana F. A. (2007). "Nomenclatura de los organismos acuáticos y marinos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes. Vol. 6: Moluscos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes, parte 5". PDF.
• Harry H. W. (1964). "The foreign freshwater snails now established in Puerto Rico" (abstract). American Malac. Union. An. Rep. 1964: 4-5.
• Gundlach J. (1883). Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña [Notes for Puerto-Rican fauna]. Memorias de Historia Natural 4: 5-58; 5: 441-484.
• van der Schalie H. (1948). "The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 70: 134 pp. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56315 PDF.
• Richards C. S. (1964). "Puerto Rican species of Tropicorbis and Drepanotrema. Comparison with Australorbis glabratus and other Planorbids". Malacologia 2(1): 105-129.