List of molluscs recorded in Germany

There are 390 species (including subspecies) [ [http://www.mollbase.de/list/deunam.htm List of German land and freshwater molluscs including their common names Diskussionsfassung (in Bearbeitung)] ] of molluscs living in the wild in Germany. In addition there is at least 1 gastropod species living 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 non-indigenous 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

ystematic list

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 [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2] .

Gastropoda

; Neritidae
* "Theodoxus danubialis" (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)
* "Theodoxus fluviatilis" (Linnaeus, 1758) - and "Theodoxus fluviatilis littoralis" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Theodoxus transversalis" (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)

; Viviparidae
* "Viviparus ater" (Christofori & Jan)
* "Viviparus acerosus" (Bourguignat, 1862)
* "Viviparus contectus" (Millet, 1813)
* "Viviparus viviparus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - and "Viviparus viviparus penthicus" (Servain, 1884)

; Hydrobiidae
* "Potamopyrgus antipodarum" (Gray, 1843) - non-indigenous
* "Bythiospeum acicula" (Held, 1838)
* "Bythiospeum quenstedti" (von Wiedersheim, 1873)
* "Bythiospeum sandbergeri" (Flach, 1886)
* "Sadleriana bavarica" Boeters, 1989
* "Avenionia roberti" Boeters, 1967
* "Lithoglyphus naticoides" (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)
* "Martoniopsis scholtzi" (A. Schmidt, 1856)
* "Bythinella austriaca" (von Frauenfeld, 1857)
* "Bythinella badensis" (Boeters, 1981)
* "Bythinella bavarica" (Clessin, 1877)
* "Bythinella compressa" (von Frauenfeld, 1857)
* "Bythinella dunkeri" (von Frauenfeld, 1857)
* "Emmericia patula" (Brumati, 1838)

; Bithyniidae
* "Bithynia leachii" (Sheppard, 1823)
* "Bithynia tentaculata" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Bithynia troschelii" (Paasch, 1842)

; Aciculidae

; Valvatidae
* "Valvata cristata" O. F. Müller, 1774
* "Valvata macrostoma" Mörch, 1864
* "Valvata piscinalis" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Valvata studeri" Boeters & Falkner, 1998
* "Borysthenia naticina" (Menke, 1845)

; Acroloxidae
* "Acroloxus lacustris" (Linnaeus, 1758)

; Lymnaeidae
* "Galba truncatula" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Stagnicola occultus" (Jackiewicz, 1959) - synonym "Catascopia occulta" (Jackiewicz, 1959)
* "Stagnicola corvus" (Gmelin, 1791)
* "Stagnicola fuscus" (C. Pfeiffer, 1821)
* "Stagnicola palustris" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Stagnicola turricula" (Held, 1836)
* "Omphiscola glabra" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Radix ampla" (Hartmann, 1821)
* "Radix auricularia" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Radix balthica" (Linnaeus, 1758) - synonym "Radix ovata" (Draparnaud, 1805)
* "Radix peregra" (O. F. Müller, 1774) - synonym "Radix labiata" (Rossmässler, 1835)
* "Myxas glutinosa" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Lymnaea stagnalis" (Linnaeus, 1758)

; Physidae
* "Aplexa hypnorum" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Physa fontinalis" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Physella acuta" (Draparnaud, 1805) - non-indigenous, synonym "Physella heterostropha" (Say, 1817) [ [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2002.tb00062.x Blackwell Synergy - Invertebrate Biology, Volume 121 Issue 3 Page 226-234, September 2002 (Article Abstract) ] ]

; Planorbidae
* "Planorbis carinatus" O. F. Müller, 1774
* "Planorbis planorbis" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Anisus calculiformis" (Sandberger, 1874)
* "Anisus leucostoma" (Millet, 1813)
* "Anisus spirorbis" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Anisus vortex" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Anisus vorticulus" (Troschel, 1834)
* "Bathyomphalus contortus" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Gyraulus acronicus" (A. Férussac, 1807)
* "Gyraulus albus" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Gyraulus crista" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Gyraulus chinensis" (Dunker, 1848) - non-indigenous, in Magdeburg lowland(?)
* "Gyraulus laevis" (Alder, 1838)
* "Gyraulus parvus" (Say, 1817) - non-indigenous
* "Gyraulus riparius" (Westerlund, 1865)
* "Gyraulus rossmaessleri" (Auerswald, 1852)
* "Hippeutis complanatus" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Segmentina nitida" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Planorbarius corneus" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Planorbella duryi" (Wetherby, 1879) - non-indigenous, one appearance in Rhineland [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2. page 58.]
* "Menetus dilatatus" (Gould, 1841) - non-indigenous
* "Ancylus fluviatilis" O. F. Müller, 1774
* "Ferrissia fragilis" (Tryon, 1863) - non-indigenous

; Ellobiidae

; Succineaidae"Succinea putris" Linnaeus, 1758

; Valloniidae
* "Spermodea lamellata" Jeffreys, 1830

;Vertiginidae
* "Vertigo angustior" Jeffreys, 1830

;Zonitidae
* "Aegopinella ressmanni" (Westerlund, 1883)

; Arionidae
* "Arion ater" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Arion lusitanicus" (Mabille, 1868) - non-indigenous

Bivalvia

;Unionoida;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

;Veneroida;Corbiculidae
* "Corbicula fluminalis" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Corbicula fluminea" (O. F. Müller, 1774)

; Sphaeriidae
* "Sphaerium corneum" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Sphaerium nucleus" (S. Studer, 1820)
* "Sphaerium ovale" (A. Férussac, 1807)
* "Sphaerium rivicola" (Lamarck, 1818)
* "Sphaerium solidum" (Normand, 1844)
* "Musculium lacustre" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Musculium transversum" (Say, 1829)
* "Pisidium amnicum" (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* "Pisidium casertanum" (Poli, 1791)
* "Pisidium conventus" (Clessin, 1877)
* "Pisidium henslowanum" (Sheppard, 1823)
* "Pisidium hibernicum" Westerlund, 1894
* "Pisidium lilljeborgii" (Clessin, 1886)
* "Pisidium milium" Held, 1836
* "Pisidium moitessierianum" Paladilhe, 1866
* "Pisidium nitidum" Jenyns, 1832
* "Pisidium obtusale" (Lamarck, 1818)
* "Pisidium personatum" Malm, 1855
* "Pisidium pulchellum" (Jenyns, 1832)
* "Pisidium pseudosphaerium" Favre, 1927
* "Pisidium subtruncatum" Malm, 1855
* "Pisidium supinum" A. Schmidt, 1851
* "Pisidium tenuilineatum" Stelfox, 1918

;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 scientific name):
* "Melanoides tuberculatus" (O. F. Müller, 1774) [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, ISBN 3-923376-02-2. page 32.]

ee also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
* List of molluscs recorded in Poland
* List of molluscs recorded in the Czech Republic
* List of molluscs recorded in Austria
* List of molluscs recorded in Switzerland
* List of molluscs recorded in France
* List of molluscs recorded in Luxembourg
* List of molluscs recorded in Belgium
* List of molluscs recorded in the Netherlands
* List of molluscs recorded in Denmark

References

Recommended literature

* (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2

External links

* Molluscs in Germany protected by Law (in German wikipedia)