List of non-marine molluscs of Kenya

Location of Kenya

topography of Kenya

The non-marine molluscs of Kenya are a part of the molluscan fauna of Kenya (wildlife of Kenya).

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

There are 514 species of land snails in Kenya.[1]

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]

Lymnaeidae

• Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848)[3]

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Kenya include:

Cyclophoridae

• Elgonocyclus koptaweliensis (Germain, 1934)[1]

Maizaniidae

• Maizania elatior (Martens, 1892)[1]
• Maizania volkensi (Martens, 1895)[1]

Veronicellidae

• Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)[1]

Succineidae

• Quickia concisa (Morelet, 1849)[1]

Valloniidae

• Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)[1]

Vertiginidae

• Nesopupa (Afripupa) bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873)[1]
• Truncatellina ninagongensis (Pilsbry, 1935)[1]
• Truncatellina pygmaeorum (Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933)[1]

Cerastidae

• Conulinus rutshuruensis Pilsbry, 1919[1]
• Conulinus ugandae – subspecies: Conulinus ugandae costatus Verdcourt, 1985[4]
• Edouardia metula (Martens, 1895)[1]
• Rhachidina braunsi (Martens, 1869)[1]

Achatinidae

• Limicolaria martensiana (E. A. Smith, 1880)[1]
• Limicolaria saturata E. A. Smith, 1895[1]

Ferussaciidae

• Cecilioides (Cecilioides) tribulationis (Preston, 1911)[1]
• Cecilioides (Geostilbia) callipeplum (Connolly, 1923)[1]

Micractaeonidae

• Micractaeon koptawelilensis (Germain, 1934)[1]

Subulinidae

• Curvella babaulti Germain, 1923[1]
• Euonyma curtissima Verdcourt[5]
• Ischnoglessula elegans (Martens, 1895)[1]
• Nothapalus paucispira (Martens, 1892)[1]
• Nothapalus ugandanus Connolly, 1923[1]
• Oreohomorus nitidus (Martens, 1897)[1]
• Pseudopeas curvelliforme Pilsbry, 1919[1]
• Pseudopeas elgonense Connolly, 1923[1]
• Subulina entebbana Pollonera, 1907[1]
• Subulona clara (Pilsbry, 1919)[1]

Streptaxidae

• Gulella (Molarella) ugandensis (E. A. Smith, 1901)[1]
• Gulella (Silvigulella) osborni Pilsbry, 1919[1]
• Gulella (Wilmattina) disseminata (Preston, 1913)[1]
• Stenomarconia Germain, 1934[6]

Punctidae

• Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)[1]
• Punctum pallidum Connolly, 1922[1]
• Punctum ugandanum (E. A. Smith, 1903)[1]

Charopidae

• Afrodonta kempi (Connolly, 1925)[1]
• Prositala butumbiana (Martens, 1895)[1]
• Trachycystis iredalei Preston, 1912[1]
• Trachycystis lamellifera (E. A. Smith, 1903)[1]

Helicarionidae

• Kaliella barrakporensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)[1]
• Kaliella iredalei Preston, 1912[1]

Euconulidae

• Afroconulus iredalei (Preston, 1912)[1]
• Afroguppya rumrutiensis (Preston, 1911)[1]
• Afropunctum seminium (Morelet, 1873)[1]

Urocyclidae

• Atoxon pallens Simroth, 1895[1]
• Chlamydarion quentini Verdcourt, 2004[7]
• Gymnarion aloysiisabaudiae (Pollonera, 1906)[1]
• Trichotoxon heynemanni Simroth, 1888[1]
• Trochozonites (Teleozonites) adansoniae (Morelet, 1848)[1]
• Trochozonites (Zonitotrochus) medjensis Pilsbry, 1919[1]

Freshwater bivalves

Sphaeriidae

• Pisidium artifex Kuiper, 1960[8]

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Kenya

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Somalia, Wildlife of Somalia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Ethiopia, Wildlife of Ethiopia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Sudan, Wildlife of Sudan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Uganda, Wildlife of Uganda
• List of non-marine molluscs of Tanzania, Wildlife of Tanzania

References

1. Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87–100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
2. Madhyastha A. (2010). Melanoides tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 December 2010.
3. 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.
4. Verdcourt B. (1985). "A new subspecies of Conulinus ugandae (von Martens) from Kenya (Pulmonata: Enidae)". Journal of Conchology 32(1): 37–38. abstract.
5. Tattersfield P. (1996). Euonyma curtissima. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
6. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
7. Verdcourt B. (2004). "A new species of Chlamydarion (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocyclidae) from Kenya". Basteria 67(4–6): 141–145. abstract.
8. Lange C. N. & Ngereza C. (2004). Pisidium artifex. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

External links

• Lange C. N. (2003). "Environmental factors influencing land snail diversity patterns in Arabuko Sokoke forest, Kenya". African Journal of Ecology 41(4): 352–355.
• Tattersfield P. (1996). "Local patterns of land snail diversity in a Kenyan rain forest". Malacologia 38(1–2): 161–180.
• Tattersfield P., Warui C. M., Seddon M. B. & Kiringe J. W. (2001). "Land-snail faunas of afromontane forests of Mount Kenya, Kenya: ecology, diversity and distribution patterns". Journal of Biogeography 28(7): 843–861.
• Tattersfield P., Seddon M. B. & Lange C. N. (2001). "Land-snail faunas in indigenous rainforest and commercial forestry plantations in Kakamega Forest, western Kenya". Biodiversity and Conservation 10(11): 1809–1829. doi:10.1023/A:1013167726704.