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List of non-marine molluscs of New Zealand

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Location of New Zealand

Non-marine molluscs of New Zealand include gastropods, such as land snails, and freshwater molluscs (or shellfish), such as freshwater mussels. Among the best known are the large native forest snails such as the Paryphanta (kauri snails) and Powelliphanta.

Systematic list

Freshwater gastropods

Latiidae - only one genus Latia is endemic to the North Island

Lymnaeidae

Planorbidae

Land gastropods

Hydrobiidae

Hydrocenidae

Orthalicidae

Pupinidae

Rhytididae

Charopidae, Otoconchinae

Helicidae

Bivalvia

Hyriidae

See also

The Exclusive Economic Zone of the Realm of New Zealand

References

Further reading

  • Hutton F. W. (1880). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands.
  • Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca Wellington.
  • Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.