List of non-marine molluscs of Afghanistan
The non-marine . The molluscan fauna of the country is poorly known and contains over 70 molluscan taxa.
History of malacozoology of Afghanistan
The earliest reports on Afghanistan molluscs consists of scattered descriptions of materials gathered on various military expeditions.
Alan Solem have reported 10 new taxa (3 newly described species and 6 found species) that were previously not known from Afghanistan in 1979.[1] Up to 1979, 73 taxa of molluscs have been recorded from Afghanistan.[1]
It is obvious that knowledge of the Afghanistan molluscan fauna is in a very preliminary stage.
Freshwater gastropods
- Bellamya hilmendensis (Kobelt, 1908)[1]
- Gabbia sistanica (Annandale & Prashad, 1919)[1]
- Galba truncatula (Müller, 1774)[1]
- Lymnaea bactriana (Hutton, 1849)[12]
- Lymnaea gedrosiana (Annandale & Prashad, 1919)[12]
- Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
- Anisus convexiusculus (Hutton, 1849)[1][12]
- Gyraulus euphraticus (Mousson, 1874)[1]
- Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes, 1834)[1]
- Polypylis calathus (Benson, 1850)[1]
Land gastropods
- Oxyloma indica (Pfeiffer, 1849)[1]
- Oxyloma elegans(Risso, 1826)[1]
- Granopupa granum (Draparnaud, 1801)[1]
- Granaria lapidaria (Hutton, 1849)[1]
- Pupilla afghanicum Solem, 1979 - subgenus Gibbulinopsis[1]
- Pupoides coenopictus (Hutton, 1834)[1]
- Least Concern species endemic to Micronesia, but one broken specimen was found to be introduced in Afghanistan.[1] There are no other species of molluscs listed in the 2010 IUCN Red List for Afghanistan.[13]
- Vallonia asiatica (Nevill, 1878)[12]
- Vallonia mionecton (O. Boettger, 1889) - Vallonia mionecton schamhalensis Rosen, 1892[1]
- Laevozebrinus eremita (Reeve, 1849)[12]
- Subzebrinus tandjanensis (Kobelt, 1902)[1]
- Subzebrinus drangianus Jaeckel, 1956[1]
- Subzebrinus coelocentrus (Ancey, 1893)[1]
- Subzebrinus streeti Solem, 1979[1]
- Subzebrinus griffithsii (Benson, 1848)[1]
- Zonitoides nitidus (Müller, 1774)[1]
- Candaharia rutellum (Hutton, 1849) - synonym: Parmacella (Proparmacella) rutellum (Hutton, 1849)[1][12]
- Parvatella flemingi (Pfeiffer, 1857)[1]
- Parvatella sogdianus (Martens, 1871)[1]
- Syama cavicula Solem, 1979[1]
- Phenacolimax conoidea (Martens, 1874) - subgenus Oligolimax[1]
- Lytopelte kandaharensis (Altena, 1970)[1][14][15]
- Cecilioides bensoni Gude, 1914 - subgenus: Geostilbia, synonym: Caecilioides bensoni[1]
- Zootecus insularis chion (Pfeiffer, 1857)[1]
- Bradybaena fedtschenkoi (Martens, 1874)[1]
- Hesseola bactriana (Hutton, 1849) - synonym: Euomphalia bactriana (Hutton, 1849)[1][12]
- Leucozonella rufispira (Martens, 1874)[1]
- Xeropicta candaharica (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)[1][12]
Freshwater bivalves
- Lamellidens testudinarius (Spengler) var. rhadinaeus Annandale & Prashad, 1919[1]
- Corbicula fluminalis (Müller, 1774)[1]
See also
- List of non-marine molluscs of Pakistan
- List of non-marine molluscs of Iran
- List of non-marine molluscs of Turkmenistan
- List of non-marine molluscs of Uzbekistan
- List of non-marine molluscs of Tajikistan
- List of non-marine molluscs of China
- List of non-marine molluscs of India
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Further reading
- Anonymous. (1910). "Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India including south Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Ceylon". Conchologia Indica 2, Pp XI London.
- Godwin-Austen H. H. (1882–1920). Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica. Taylor and Francis, London. VI+257+ 442+65 pp., 165 pls. Published in parts:
- (1889) Volume I + plates; 1882: pp. I–VI, 1–66, pls. 1–12; 1883: pp. 67–164, pls. 13–42; 1884: pls. 43–51; 1886: pp. 165–206; 1887: pls. 52–62; 1888: pp. 207–257.
- (1889–1914) volume 2 + plates; 1897: pp. 1–46, pls. 63–69; 1898: pp. 47–86, pls. 70–82; 1899: pp. 87–146, pls. 83–100; 1907: pp. 147–238, pls. 101–117; 1910: pp. 239–310, pls. 118–132; 1914: pp. 311–442, pls. 133–158;
- (1920) volume 3 + plates: 1920: pp. 1–65, pls. 159–165.