List of non-marine molluscs of Jamaica
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
are a part of the molluscan fauna of Jamaica. A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
island of Jamaica.
Land gastropods have a large degree of endemism in 90 % of the species. 505 species of land gastropods are endemic to Jamaica.
Summary table of number of species
| Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic... |
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| freshwater gastropods | ?? |
| land gastropods | 562 |
| gastropods altogether | ??? |
| bivalves | ?? |
| molluscs altogether | ??? |
Land gastropods
PleurodontidaePleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This family is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata...
- Pleurodonte amabilis
- Pleurodonte catadupae
- Pleurodonte candescens
See also
- List of marine molluscs of Jamaica
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
- List of non-marine molluscs of Cuba
- List of non-marine molluscs of Haiti
- List of non-marine molluscs of the Dominican Republic
External links
- Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (11 August 2005). "Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica".