The non-marine molluscs of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

are a part of the molluscan fauna of Vietnam (wildlife of Vietnam

Wildlife of Vietnam

Wildlife of Vietnam includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats.-Fauna:Animals native to Vietnam:*Agile Gibbon*Amida *Asian Elephant*Banteng*Bengal monitor*Blood python*Deinagkistrodon*Dhole*False gharial*Giant Muntjac...

). A number of species of non-marine mollusks are found in the wild in Vietnam.

There are good reasons to suppose that the country of Vietnam, with a surface of 332,000 km², a large variety of habitats, and many different limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 ‘islands’, will have a diverse terrestrial molluscan fauna. Many species are known already from the area but many still wait to be discovered and described.

Freshwater gastropods

Freshwater gastropods in Vietnam include:

Viviparidae

Viviparidae

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

• Angulyagra polyzonata

Stenothyridae

Stenothyridae

Stenothyridae is a family of freshwater snails, snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.This family has no subfamilies.-Distribution :...

• Stenothyra messageri

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)
• Sermyla requetii
• Tarebia granifera
  Tarebia granifera
  Tarebia granifera, common name in the aquarium industry the quilted melania, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae...
  
  (Lamarck, 1822)
• Thiara scabra

Ampullariidae

Ampullariidae

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...

• Pomacea insularum
  Pomacea insularum
  Pomacea insularum, common name the island applesnail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the applesnails.- Shell description :...
  
  (d'Orbigny, 1835)

Bithyniidae

Bithyniidae

Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Their minute shell is often colored. They are characterized by a calcareous operculum, a lobe on the upper surface of the neck. The ctenidium, the respiratory gill-comb, is...

• Bithynia fuchsiana

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Vietnam include:
Clausiliidae

Clausiliidae

Clausiliidae, common name door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....

• Leptacme cuongi
  Leptacme cuongi
  Leptacme cuongi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.This species is know to occur in a limestone area in Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. The shell is high-spired and slender with numerous whorls, and is usually a little...
  
  Maassen & Gittenberger, 2007
• Oospira pyknosoma Gittenberger & Vermeulen, 2001
• Oospira duci
  Oospira duci
  Oospira duci is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.This land snail, which was described in 2007, lives in limestone areas in Vietnam. The species was described from just one shell, and thus no details of the anatomy of...
  
  Maassen & Gittenberger, 2007
• Oospira smithi
  Oospira smithi
  Oospira smithi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.This land snail lives in limestone areas in Vietnam. The original description was published in 2007, and included details of the reproductive system and the radula...
  
  Maassen & Gittenberger, 2007

Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in theStylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi....

• Elma
  Elma (gastropod)
  Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.- Distribution :The distribution of the genus Elma includes:* Taiwan* Vietnam...
  
   Adams, 1866

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Vietnam

Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of China
• List of non-marine molluscs of Laos
• List of non-marine molluscs of Cambodia

Further reading

• Vermeulen J. J. & Whitten T. (1998). "Land and freshwater molluscs of the karst regions ENE of Haiphong and the Cuc Phuong National Park, northern Vietnam". Report of a survey for the Vietnam Programme of FFI 12 pp. (unpublished report).
• Vermeulen J. J. & Maassen W. J. M. (2003). "The non-marine mollusk fauna of the Pu Luong, Cuc Phuong, Phu Ly, and Ha Long regions in northern Vietnam". Report of a survey for the Vietnam Programme of FFI 35 pp. (unpublished report).