Non-marine

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

s, and freshwater molluscs (or

shellfish Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Although most kinds of shellfish are harvested from saltwater envir ...

), such as freshwater

mussel Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...

s. Among the best known are the large native forest snails such as the ''

Paryphanta ''Paryphanta'' is a genus of land snails in the family Rhytididae. Species from New Zealand are known commonly as kauri snails (Māori: ''pūpūrangi''). They are closely related and similar to snails in the genus ''Powelliphanta'', which was for ...

'' (kauri snails) and ''

Powelliphanta ''Powelliphanta'' is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropoda, gastropods in the family Rhytididae, found only in New Zealand. They are carnivorous, eating invertebrata, invertebrates, mostly native earthworms. Often rest ...

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Systematic list

Freshwater gastropods

Tateidae Tateidae is a family of very small and minute aquatic snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Tateidae Thiele, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma ...

* '' Catapyrgus jamyi'' Verhaegen & Haase, 2021 * '' Catapyrgus sororius'' Haase, 2008 * '' Obtusopyrgus farri'' Verhaegen & Haase, 2021 * ''

Opacuincola gretathunbergae ''Opacuincola gretathunbergae'' is a freshwater snail endemic to New Zealand. It is named after the climate activist Greta Thunberg. Distribution The snail was discovered in 2016 by a research team from the University of Greifswald, which sp ...

'' Verhaegen & Haase, 2021 * '' Opacuincola lisannea'' Verhaegen & Haase, 2021 * ''

Opacuincola mete ''Opacuincola'' is a genus of New Zealand freshwater snails in the family Tateidae. The genus contains the following species: * '' Opacuincola abradeta'' Haase, 2008 * '' Opacuincola caeca'' Ponder, 1966 * '' Opacuincola cervicesmadentes'' Haas ...

'' Haase, 2008 with the subspecies ''O. mete kahurangi'' Verhaegen & Haase, 2021

Latiidae ''Latia'' is a genus of very small, air-breathing freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Chilinoidea. ''Latia'' is the only genus in the family Latiidae. Species in this genus are the only ...

- only one genus Latia is endemic to the North Island * ''

Latia climoi ''Latia climoi'' is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Latiidae. It is the holotype of its genus. There is no fossil record of this species, genus, or family, so there is currently not ...

'' Starobogatov, 1986 - type species * '' Latia lateralis'' (

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, 1852) * ''

Latia neritoides ''Latia neritoides'' is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an Aquatic animal, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Latiidae. The type specimen is in the British Museum. The specific epithet "neritoides" means "l ...

'' Gray, 1850

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

Planorbidae Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn snails contains iron-based hemoglobin ins ...

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Planorbis kahuica ''Planorbis'' is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.Bouchet, P.; Rosen ...

'' Finlay & Laws, 1931

Land gastropods

Hydrocenidae Hydrocenidae is a taxonomic family of minute land snails or cave snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha. Hydrocenidae are widespread across the Palearctis and Africa, but r ...

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Omphalorissa purchasi ''Omphalorissa purchasi'' is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrocenidae. The type specimen is stored in the Imperial Natural History Museum, Vienna. Description The shell is minute, globosel ...

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Orthalicidae Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase ...

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Placostylus ambagiosus ''Placostylus ambagiosus'' is a species of flax snail (Māori: pūpū whakarongotaua), a large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. Description This snail has a large ( long) ...

'' Suter, 1906

Pupinidae Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase ...

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Cytora annectens ''Cytora annectens'' is a species of very small air-breathing land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occurs in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is ...

'' (Powell, 1948)Bruce A. Marshall & Gary M. Barker (2007). "A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae)". Tuhinga 18: 49–113. * '' Cytora aranea'' (Powell, 1928) * '' Cytora brooki'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora calva'' (Hutton, 1882) * '' Cytora chiltoni'' (Suter, 1896) * '' Cytora climoi'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora cytora'' (Gray, 1850) * '' Cytora depressa'' N. Gardner, 1968 * '' Cytora fasciata'' (Suter, 1894) * '' Cytora filicosta'' (Powell, 1948) * '' Cytora gardneri'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora goulstonei'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora hazelwoodi'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora hedleyi'' (Suter, 1894) * '' Cytora hirsutissima'' (Powell, 1951) * '' Cytora hispida'' N. Gardner, 1967 * '' Cytora houhora'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora jamiesoni'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora kahurangi'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora kakano'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora kamura'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora kerrana'' N. Gardner, 1968 * '' Cytora lignaria'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) * '' Cytora malleata'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora maui'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora mayhillae'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora minor'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora motu'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora pakotai'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora pallida'' (Hutton, 1883) * '' Cytora pannosa'' (Hutton, 1882) * '' Cytora paparoa'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora parrishi'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora rakiura'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora septentrionalis'' (Suter, 1907) * '' Cytora solitaria'' (Powell, 1935) * '' Cytora taipa'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora tawhiti'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora tepakiensis'' N. Gardner, 1967 * '' Cytora tokerau'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Cytora torquillum'' (Suter, 1894) * '' Cytora tuarua'' Marshall & Barker, 2007 * '' Liarea aupouria'' Powell, 1954: '' Liarea aupouria aupouria'' and '' Liarea aupouria tara'' * '' Liarea bicarinata'' (Suter, 1907) * '' Liarea egea'' (Gray, 1850): '' Liarea egea egea'' and '' Liarea egea tessellata'' * '' Liarea hochstetteri'' (Pfeiffer, 1861): '' Liarea hochstetteri alta'', '' Liarea hochstetteri carinella'' and '' Liarea hochstetteri hochstetteri'' * '' Liarea lepida'' (Suter, 1904) * '' Liarea ornata'' Powell, 1954 * '' Liarea turriculata'' (Pfeiffer, 1855): '' Liarea turriculata partula'', '' Liarea turriculata turriculata'' and '' Liarea turriculata waipoua''

Punctidae Punctidae, common name the "dot snails" or "pinhead snails", is a family of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropo ...

* '' Laoma leimonias'' (Gray, 1850) * '' Paralaoma servilis'' (Shuttleworth, 1852) * '' Phrixgnathus celia'' Hutton, 1883

Rhytididae Rhytididae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893. Accessed ...

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Paryphanta busbyi ''Paryphanta busbyi'' is a species of large predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rhytididae. Distribution The distribution of ''Paryphanta busbyi'' includes the Northern parts of North Island, New Zea ...

'' (Gray, 1840) * ''

Paryphanta watti ''Paryphanta watti'' is a species of large predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rhytididae. Distribution This species occurs in New Zealand Description The width of the shell is up to 49.6-61.2 ...

'' Powell, 1946 * ''

spp. In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexe ...

- all species of the genus ''Powelliphanta'' are endemic to New Zealand * ''

Rhytida ''Rhytida'' is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, predatory land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Rhytididae. This is the type genus of the family. Distribution This g ...

'' spp. - all species of the genus ''Rhytida'' are endemic to New Zealand * '' Rhytida greenwoodi'' (Gray, 1850) * '' Schizoglossa'' spp. - all species of the genus ''Schizoglossa'' are endemic to New Zealand * ''

Wainuia ''Wainuia'' is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Rhytididae. Species in this genus occur in List of non-marine molluscs of New Zealand, New ...

'' spp. - all species of the genus ''Wainuia'' are endemic to New Zealand

Charopidae Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae Hutt ...

* '' Allodiscus dimorphus'' (Reeve, 1852)Rodrigo B. Salvador, Fred J. Brook, Lara D. Shepherd, Martyn Kennedy (2020). „Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Punctoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)“.

Zoosystematics and Evolution ''Zoosystematics and Evolution'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological systematics and evolution. It was established in 1898 as ''Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin'' () ...

96(2): 397-410. * '' Alsolemia longstaffae'' (Suter, 1913) * '' Charopa coma'' (Gray, 1843) * '' Fectola infecta'' (Reeve, 1852) * '' Flammulina zebra'' (Le Guillou, 1842) * '' Mitodon wairarapa'' (Suter, 1890) * '' Mocella eta'' (Pfeiffer, 1853) * '' Neophenacohelix giveni'' (Cumber, 1961) * ''

Otoconcha dimidiata ''Otoconcha dimidiata'' is a species of small air-breathing semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Charopidae. It has a very thin and cap like shell hidden under its skin in the rounded swelling behind the head. '' ...

'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) * '' Phacussa helmsi'' (Hutton, 1882) * '' Phenacohelix pilula'' (Reeve, 1852) * '' Ranfurlya constanceae'' Suter, 1903 * ''

Suteria ide ''Suteria ide'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Charopidae (Marshall, 2015).This species is endemic to New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwe ...

'' (Gray, 1850) * '' Therasia thaisa'' Hutton, 1883

Helicidae Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." A number of species in this family are valued as food items, including ''Cornu aspersum'' (formerly ''Helix aspersa'') the b ...

Bivalvia

Hyriidae Hyriidae is a taxonomic family of pearly freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Unionida. This family is native to South America, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Like all members of that order, they go through a larval ...

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Cucumerunio websteri ''Cucumerunio websteri'' is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Hyriidae. Subspecies * ''Cucumerunio websteri websteri'' (Simpson, 1902) * '' Cucumerunio websteri delli'' McMichael & Hiscock, 1958 Desc ...

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References

External links

Invertebrates
Department of Conservation.
New Zealand Mollusca
website * Hamish G. Spencer, Richard C. Willan, Bruce A. Marshall & Tara J. Murray. 2004
''Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone''
- See also: Exclusive Economic Zone#New Zealand * Sykes R. E. (1893) "On a new helicoid land-shell from New Zealand". ''

Proceedings of the malacological society The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology.

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Systematic list

Freshwater gastropods

Land gastropods

Bivalvia

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References

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