The non-marine molluscs of Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

are a part of the molluscan fauna of Iran, which is part of the (wildlife of Iran

Wildlife of Iran

Wildlife of Iran includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. One of the most famous members of wildlife in Iran are the world's last surviving, critically endangered Asiatic Cheetah also known as the Iranian Cheetah, which are today found nowhere else but in Iran...

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Freshwater gastropods

Species of freshwater gastropods of Iran include:

Neritidae

Neritidae

Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum, marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod mollusks in the order Neritoida....

• Neritina mesopotamica Martens 1879 - first report in Iran was in 2001
• Theodoxus euphraticus (Mousson, 1874)

Thiaridae

Thiaridae

Thiaridae, common name thiarids, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea....

• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Melanopsis costata Brot, 1879
• Melanopsis doriae Issel, 1865
• Melanopsis nodosa Mousson, 1874
• Melanopsis praemorsa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Viviparidae

Viviparidae

Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks....

• Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)

Lymnaeidae

Lymnaeidae

Lymnaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila....

• Radix auricularia
  Radix auricularia
  Radix auricularia, common name the big-ear radix, is a species of medium-sized freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.Radix auricularia is the type species of the genus Radix.-Forms:...
  
  Linnaeus, 1785 - Radix auricularia gedrosiana Annandale & Prashad, 1919
• Lymnaea stagnalis
  Lymnaea stagnalis
  Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.-Distribution:The distribution of this species is Holarctic...
  
  (Linnaeus, 1774)
• Galba truncatula
  Galba truncatula
  Galba truncatula is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.Until recently, this species was commonly known as Lymnaea truncatula.-Description:...
  
  (Müller, 1774)

Physidae

Physidae

Physidae, common name bladder snails, are a monophyletic taxonomic family of small freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the clade Hygrophila....

• Physella acuta
  Physella acuta
  Physella acuta, common name the European physa, is a species of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae.-Shell description:...
  
  Draparnaud, 1801

Planorbidae

Planorbidae

Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks....

• Bulinus truncatus
  Bulinus truncatus
  Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.-Distribution:Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:...
  
  (Audouin, 1827)
• Gyraulus euphraticus (Mousson, 1874)
• Planorbis intermixtus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Land gastropods

Species of land gastropods of Iran include:

Trigonochlamydidae

• Hyrcanolestes velitaris
  Hyrcanolestes velitaris
  Hyrcanolestes velitaris is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.Hyrcanolestes velitaris is the only species in the genus Hyrcanolestes....
  
  (Martens, 1880)
• Parmacellilla filipowitschi
  Parmacellilla filipowitschi
  Parmacellilla filipowitschi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae....
  
  Simroth, 1910

Freshwater bivalves

Species of freshwater bivalves of Iran include:

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Iran

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Armenia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Azerbaijan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Turkmenistan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Kazakhstan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Russia
• List of non-marine molluscs of Afghanistan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Pakistan
• List of non-marine molluscs of Iraq
• List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey

Further reading

Mansoorian A. (1986). "A practical guide to the identification of the freshwater snails of Iran". J. Pub. Hlth. 15(1-2): 41-53.

• Mansoorian A. (1994). "Freshwater snails of Iran, Technical series, No 2145, 1374". Scientific publication of School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research, P.O. Box 6446, Tehran 14155, Iran.
• Mansoorian A. & Edlinger K. (2001). "Some Terrestrial Snails from Northern Iran". In: abstract volume of Unitas Malacologica, 14th Congress, Vienna, 19-26 August 2001.
• Massoud J. & Hedayeti-Far M. (1979). "Freshwater Mollusk Fauna of the Khuzestan and Khorram-abad Areas in Southwestern Iran". Malacological Review 12: 96. Nordsieck H. (1995). "Iranische Clausiliidae: Die Arten in Gilan und Mazandaran (mit Beschreibung neuer Taxa) (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A: Biologie. 527: 1-27.