List of non-marine molluscs of Lebanon

The non-marine molluscs of Lebanon are a part of the molluscan fauna of Lebanon. A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Lebanon. In addition, a number of gastropod species are reared in captivity in greenhouses, aquaria and terraria.

Location of Lebanon

Freshwater gastropods

Neritidae

Melanopsidae

Hydrobiidae

Bithyniidae

  • Pseudobithynia amiqensis Glöer & Bößneck, 2007[1][2]
  • Pseudobithynia levantica Glöer & Bößneck, 2007[1][2]
  • Pseudobithynia kathrini Glöer & Bößneck, 2007[1][2]

Valvatidae

Lymnaeidae

Physidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Lauriidae

Orculidae

  • Orculella sirianocoriensis libanotica (Tristram, 1865)[1]
  • Orculella mesopotamica riedeli Hausdorf, 1996[1]

Buliminidae

  • Turanena benjamitica (Benson, 1859)[1]
  • Pene syriacus syriacus (L. Pfeiffer, 1864)[1]
  • Buliminus damascensis (Pallary, 1929)[1]
  • Euchondrus septemdentatus (Roth, 1839)[1]
  • Euchondrus cf. ledereri (L. Pfeiffer, 1868)[1]

Pleurodiscidae

  • Pleurodiscus erdelii (Roth, 1839)[1]

Clausiliidae

  • Cristataria dutaillyana (Bourguignat, 1868)[1]
  • Cristataria cf. zelebori (Rossmässler, 1856)[1]
  • Elia moesta (Rossmässler, 1839)[1]
  • Albinaria hedenborgi (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)[1]

Succineidae

  • Oxyloma cf. elegans (Risso, 1826)[1]

Zonitidae

  • Eopolita protensa jebusitica (Roth, 1855)[1]
  • Oxychilus syriacus (Kobelt, 1879)[1]
  • Oxychilus renanianus (Pallary, 1939)[1]

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

  • Deroceras berytensis (Bourguignat, 1852)[1]

Sphincterochilidae

  • Sphincterochila fimbriata (Bourguignat, 1852)[1]

Hygromiidae

Helicidae

Freshwater bivalves

Sphaeriidae

See also

  • List of marine molluscs of Lebanon

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

References

  1. Ulrich Bößneck (2011) New records of freshwater and land molluscs from Lebanon, Zoology in the Middle East, 54:1, 35-52, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2011.10648879
  2. Peter Glöer & Ulrich Bößneck (2007). "Pseudobithynia kathrini n. sp., P. levantica n. sp. und P. amiqensis n. sp. - drei neue Arten aus dem Libanon (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Mollusca 25(2): 113-120.
  3. Peter Glöer & Aref Dia (2013). "Re-description of Gyraulus homsensis (Dautzenberg, 1894) from Lebanon (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with an identification key of the Gyraulus spp. of the Near East". North-western Journal of Zoology 9
  4. Neubert E, Michel Bariche M (2013) On the Monacha species of Lebanon (Gastropoda, Hygromiidae). ZooKeys 311: 1–18. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.311.5408
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