List of non-marine molluscs of South Africa
Freshwater and land species of the molluscan fauna of South Africa
The list of non-marine molluscs of South Africa is a list of freshwater and land species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of South Africa.
Freshwater gastropods
Ampullariidae
- Lanistes ovum Troschel, 1845[1]
Pomatiopsidae
- Tomichia cawstoni Connolly, 1939 – endemic[2]
- Tomichia natalensis Connolly, 1939 – endemic[3]
- Tomichia rogersi (Connolly, 1929) – endemic[4]
Thiaridae
- Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) – non-indigenous[1]
- Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
- Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[1]
Paludomidae
- Cleopatra ferruginea (Lea & Lea, 1850)[1]
Lymnaeidae
Planorbidae
- Lentorbis carringtoni (de Azevedo et al., 1961)[6]
Land gastropods
- Afrocyclus bhaca Cole, 2019[7]
- Afrocyclus exsertus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1903)[7]
- Afrocyclus isipingoensis (Sturany, 1898)[7]
- Afrocyclus oxygala Cole, 2019[7]
- Afrocyclus potteri Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus alabastris (Craven, 1880)[7]
- Chondrocyclus amathole Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus bathrolophodes Connolly, 1929[7]
- Chondrocyclus convexiusculus (Pfeiffer, 1855)[7]
- Chondrocyclus cooperae Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus devilliersi Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus herberti Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus kevincolei Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus langebergensis Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus pondoensis Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus pulcherrimus Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus putealis Connolly, 1939[7]
- Chondrocyclus silvicolus Cole, 2019[7]
- Chondrocyclus trifimbriatus Connolly, 1929[7]
- Cyathopoma chirindae (van Bruggen, 1986)[7]
- Cyathopoma meredithae (van Bruggen, 1983)[7]
- Oxyloma patentissima (Pfeiffer, 1853)[8][9]
- Laevicaulis haroldi Dundee, 1980 – endemic
- Euonyma laeocochlis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896)[10]
- Gulella appletoni Bruggen, 1975[11]
- Gulella aprosdoketa Connolly, 1939 – endemic[12][11]
- Gulella arnoldi (Sturany, 1898)[12]
- Gulella bomvana Cole & Herbert, 2009[11]
- Gulella bruggeni Cole & Herbert, 2009[11]
- Gulella chi Burnup, 1926[11]
- Gulella claustralis Connolly, 1939 – endemic[12][7]
- Gulella dejae Bursey & Herbert, 2004[12]
- Gulella farquhari (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1895)[11]
- Gulella fraudator Connolly, 1939[11]
- Gulella hamerae Bursey & Herbert, 2004[12]
- Gulella hodgkinsonae[12]
- Gulella incurvidens Bruggen, 1972[12]
- Gulella latimerae Bursey & Herbert 2004[11][12]
- Gulella mariae (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)[11]
- Gulella munita (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)[12]
- Gulella ndibo Cole & Herbert, 2009[11]
- Gulella newmani Bursey & Herbert, 2004[12]
- Gulella peakei continentalis Bruggen, 1975[12]
- Gulella pentheri (Sturany, 1898)[11]
- Gulella phyllisae Burnup, 1914[12]
- Gulella plantii – Plant's gulella snail, endemic[13]
- Gulella pondoensis Connolly, 1939[12]
- Gulella puzeyi Connolly, 1939 – endemic[14]
- Gulella salpinx Herbert, 2002 – endemic[15][12]
- Gulella sylvia (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1903)[11]
- Gulella tharfieldensis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)[12]
- Gulella tietzae Cole & Herbert, 2009[11]
- Gulella wendalinae Bruggen, 1975[11]
- Prestonella – the genus with 3 species is endemic to South Africa.[16]
- Prestonella bowkeri (Sowerby, 1889)[17]
- Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894)[17]
- Prestonella quadingensis Connolly, 1929[17]
- Chlamydephorus bruggeni (L. Forcart, 1967)[17]
- Chlamydephorus burnupi (Smith, 1892)[17]
- Chlamydephorus dimidius (Watson, 1915)[17]
- Chlamydephorus gibbonsi W.G. Binney, 1879[17]
- Chlamydephorus lawrencei (L. Forcart, 1963)[17]
- Chlamydephorus parva (H. Watson, 1915)[17]
- Chlamydephorus purcelli (Collinge, 1901) – Purcell's hunter slug, endemic[17]
- Chlamydephorus sexangulus (H. Watson, 1915)[17]
- Chlamydephorus watsoni (L. Forcart, 1967)[17]
- Afrorhytida burseyae D.G. Herbert & A. Moussalli, 2010[17]
- Afrorhytida knysnaensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)[17]
- Afrorhytida kraussi (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)[17]
- Afrorhytida trimeni (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)[17]
- Capitina calcicola Herbert & Moussalli, 2010[17]
- Capitina schaerfiae (Pfeiffer, 1861)[17]
- Nata aequiplicata Herbert & Moussali, 2016[17]
- Nata dumeticola Benson 1851[17]
- Nata tarachodes (Connolly, 1912)[17]
- Nata vernicosa-erugata[17]
- Nata watsoni Herbert & Moussali, 2016[17]
- Natalina beyrichi (Von Martens, 1890) – Pondoland cannibal snail, endemic[12][11][17]
- Natalina cafra (Férussac, 1821)[17]
- Natalina inhluzana (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894)[17]
- Natalina quekettiana (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)[17]
- Natalina reenenensis Connolly, 1939[17]
- Natalina wesseliana Kobelt, 1876 – Tongaland cannibal snail, endemic[17]
- Natella viridescens (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1891)[17]
- Kerkophorus ampliatus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899)[17]
- Kerkophorus bicolor Godwin-Austen, 1914[17]
- Kerkophorus cingulatus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)[17]
- Kerkophorus corneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)[17]
- Kerkophorus inunctus (Connolly 1939)[18][17]
- Kerkophorus knysnaensis (Pretson, 1912)[17]
- Kerkophorus melvilli Godwin-Austen, 1912[17]
- Kerkophorus perfragilis Connolly, 1922[17]
- Kerkophorus perlevis (Preston, 1912)[17]
- Kerkophorus piperatus-vittarubra[17]
- Kerkophorus poeppigii (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)[17]
- Kerkophorus pumilio (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1909)[17]
- Kerkophorus phaedimus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)[18]
- Kerkophorus piperatus Herbert, 2017[18]
- Kerkophorus puzeyi (Connolly, 1939)[18][17]
- Kerkophorus russofulgens (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1909)[17]
- Kerkophorus scrobicolus Herbert, 2017[18][17]
- Kerkophorus terrestris Herbert, 2017[18][17]
- Kerkophorus vandenbroeckii (Craven, 1881)[17]
- Kerkophorus vitalis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1908)[18][17]
- Kerkophorus vittarubra Herbert, 2017[18]
- Kerkophorus zonamydrus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)[17]
- Microkerkus arnotti (Benson, 1864)[17]
- Microkerkus burnupi (Godwin-Austen, 1914)[17]
- Microkerkus chrysoprasinus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)[17]
- Microkerkus fuscicolor (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)[17]
- Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)[18][17]
- Microkerkus maseruensis Connolly, 1929[17]
- Microkerkus pondoensis (Godwin-Austen, 1912)[18][17]
- Microkerkus sibaya Herbert, 2017[18][17]
- Microkerkus symmetricus (Craven, 1881)[17]
- Microkerkus transvaalensis (Craven, 1881)[17]
- Ptilototheca soutpansbergensis Herbert 2016[17]
- Selatodryas luteosoma-roseosoma[17]
- Selatodryas luteosoma Herbert, 2017[18]
- Selatodryas roseosoma Herbert, 2017[18]
- Sheldonia aloicola (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)[18][17]
- Sheldonia asthenes (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1907)[17]
- Sheldonia caledonensis (Godwin-Austen, 1912)[17]
- Sheldonia capsula (Benson, 1864)[18][17]
- Sheldonia cotyledonis (Benson, 1850)[18][17]
- Sheldonia crawfordi (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)[18][17]
- Sheldonia fingolandensis Herbert, 2017[18][17]
- Sheldonia hudsoniae (Benson, 1864)[17]
- Sheldonia monsmaripi Herbert, 2016[18][17]
- Sheldonia natalensis (Pfeiffer, 1846)[18][17]
- Sheldonia phytostylus (Benson, 1864)[18][17]
- Sheldonia puzeyi (Connolly, 1939)[11]
- Sheldonia transvaalensis (Craven, 1880)[18]
- Sheldonia trotteriana (Benson, 1848)[18][17]
- Sheldonia wolkbergensis (Herbert, 2016)[18][17]
- Trachycystis clifdeni Connolly, 1932 – endemic[19]
- Trachycystis haygarthi (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899) – endemic[20]
- Trachycystis placenta (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899) – endemic[21]
Bivalves
See also
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
- List of non-marine molluscs of Namibia
- List of non-marine molluscs of Botswana
- List of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe
- List of non-marine molluscs of Mozambique
- List of non-marine molluscs of Swaziland
- List of non-marine molluscs of Lesotho
References
- ^ a b c d e f Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 27 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brown, D.S. 2000. Tomichia cawstoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Brown D. S. (1996). Tomichia natalensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Brown D. S. (1996). Tomichia rogersi[permanent dead link]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ 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>. Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
- ^ Appleton C., Darwall W., Kaunda E., Kristensen T. K., Mailosi A. & Stensgaard A-S. (2009). Lentorbis carringtoni. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Mary L. Cole (2019). "Revision of Chondrocyclus s.l. (Mollusca: Cyclophoridae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species". European Journal of Taxonomy 569: 1-92. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.569
- ^ Oberholzer G. & Van Eeden J. A. (1967). "The freshwater molluscs of the Kruger National Park". Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science 10(1): 1–42. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v10i1.762, PDF. p. 26, Fig. 20.
- ^ van Bruggen A. C. & Appleton C. C. (1977). "Studies on the ecology and systematics of the terrestrial molluscs of the lake Sibaya area of Zululand, South Africa". Zoologische Verhandelingen 154: 3–48. pp. 21–23. PDF.
- ^ Herbert D. (2006). "Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata)". Journal of Natural History 40(17–18): 1063–1081. doi:10.1080/00222930600845218.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p M. L. Cole & D. G. Herbert (2009). "Description of four new species of Gulella Pfeiff er, 1856 from Eastern Cape, South Africa, with additional notes on two poorly known species (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Zool. Med. Leiden 83(6): 547-564.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p M. L. Bursey & D. G. Herbert (2004). "Four new narrow-range endemic species of Gulella from Eastern Cape, South Africa (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". African Invertebrates 45: 249-262.
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Gulella plantii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Herbert D. G. (2004). Gulella puzeyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Herbert D. G. (2002). "Gulella salpinx sp. n., a new critical endangered holoendemic species from the limestone deposits of the Marble Delta, KwaZuluNatal, South Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Streptaxidae)". African Invertebrates 43: 125–138. abstract.
- ^ Breure B. (23 February 2008) "The extended family". Bram's Snail Site, accessed 7 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv Perera SJ, Herbert DG, Procheş Ş, Ramdhani S (2021) Land snail biogeography and endemism in south-eastern Africa: Implications for the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248040. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248040
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x David G. Herbert (2017). "A new genus and eight new species of tail-wagger snails from eastern South Africa, with a key to genera within Sheldonia s.l. (Gastropoda: Urocyclidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy 309: 1-50.
- ^ Herbert D. G. (2004). Trachycystis clifdeni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Herbert D. G. (2004). Trachycystis haygarthi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Herbert D. G. (2004). Trachycystis placenta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
External links
- website of Dr. Dai Herbert with projects and publications
- Govender V. (2007). "Patterns of Distribution, Diversity and Endemism of Terrestrial Molluscs in South Africa". Thesis. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 219 pp. PDF.
- de Kock K. N. & Wolmarans C. T. (1998). "A re-evaluation of the occurrence of freshwater molluscs in the Kruger National Park". Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science 45(1): . doi:10.4102/koedoe.v41i1.240, PDF.
- de Kock K. N., Wolmarans C. T. & du Preez L. H. (2002) "Freshwater mollusc diversity in the Kruger National Park: a comparison between a period of prolonged drought and a period of exceptionally high rainfall". Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science 45(2): 1–11. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v45i2.23, PDF.
- Wolmarans C. T. & de Kock K. N. (2006). "The current status of freshwater molluscs in the Kruger National Park". Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science 49(2): 39–44. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v49i2.122. PDF.
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