List_of_non-marine_molluscs_of_Hong_Kong

List of non-marine molluscs of Hong Kong

List of non-marine molluscs of Hong Kong

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

Location of Hong Kong

Freshwater gastropods

Thiaridae

  • Brotia hainanensis (Brot, 1872)[1]

Land gastropods

Cyclophoridae

Rhytididae

  • Macrocycloides crenulata Yen, 1939[3]

Streptaxidae

  • Haploptychius sinensis (Gould, 1858)[3]

Ariophantidae

  • Megaustenia imperator imperator (Gould, 1858)[3]

Camaenidae

  • Moellendorffia eastlakeana (Möllendorff, 1882)[3]
An unidentified philomycid slug from Hong Kong
An unidentified semislug from Hong Kong
A species of Parmarion from Hong Kong
An unidentified land snail from Hong Kong
An ariophantid land snail from Hong Kong

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References

  1. [1]
    Dudgeon D. (1982). "The life history of Brotia hainanensis (Brot, 1872) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Thiaridae) in a tropical forest stream". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 141-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01498.x.
  2. [2]
    DO Duc Sang, DO Van Nhuong (2019). "Family Cyclophoridae in Vietnam (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea): the genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810". Ruthenica 29(1): 1-53.
  3. [3]
    A. A. Schileyko (2011). "Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Ruthenica 21(1): 1-68.

Further reading

  • Dudgeon D. (1989). "Ecological strategies of Hong Kong Thiaridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Malacological Review 22: 39-53.
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