List of non-marine molluscs of the Indiana Dunes
Appearance
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This is a list of the non-marine mollusks of the Indiana Dunes. Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in the state of Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009.[1] During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included land and freshwater mollusks. 46 species of snails and slugs (non-marine gastropods) were found, as well as 20 species of freshwater bivalves, freshwater clams and mussels.[2]
List of gastropod species
Freshwater snails in alphabetical order
- Amnicola limosus – a very small freshwater snail with a gill
- Aplexa hypnorum = Aplexa elongata – small sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail
- Campeloma decisum – pointed campeloma, freshwater snail
- Gyraulus parvus - rams horn snail, freshwater snail
- Helisoma anceps – two-ridge rams horn snail
- Menetus dilatatus – a small rams horn snail
- Physella gyrina – an air breathing sinistral snail
- Planorbella campanulata - a rams horn snail
- Planorbella trivolvus – small aquatic snail
- Planorbula armigera – ramshorn snail
- Pleurocera acuta - hornsnail
- Pomatiopsis lapidaria
- Promenetus exacuous - small rams horn snail
- Stagnicola caperatus – an air-breathing pond snail
- Stagnicola elodes - an air-breathing pond snail
- Valvata perdepressa – freshwater snail with a gill, valve snail
Land snails and slugs in alphabetical order
- Anguispira alternata – flamed tigersnail
- Arion sp. – land slug
- Arion subfuscus – land slug
- Catinella vermeta – land snail
- Cochlicopa lubrica – glossy pillar
- Deroceras laeve – land slug, pest to agriculture
- Euchemotrema sp. – small snail
- Euchemotrema froeteruum
- Fossaria obrussa also known as Lymaea obrussa
- Gastrocopta armifera - armed snaggletooth, land snail
- Gastrocopta contracta - micromollusk, land snail
- Gastrocopta similis - micromollusk, land snail
- Glyphyalinia indentata - micromollusk, land snail
- Haplotrema concavum
- Helicodiscus parallelus – compound coil snail, land snail
- Hoyia sheldoni in the family Hydrobiidae
- Ariophanta laevipes - Laevapex fuscus
- Limax maximus - great gray slug
- Mesodon thyroides (=? Mesodon thyroidus)
- Nesovitrea electrina - land snail
- Novisuccinea ovalis- an ambersnail
- Oxyloma sp. - an ambersnail
- Pallifera fosteri - the foster mantle slug
- Philomycus carolinianus – terrestrial land slug
- Pupoides albilabris – a minute land snail
- Strobilops aeneus - a minute land snail
- Vallonia excentrica – a minute land snail common in Europe
- Vertigo sp. - minute land snail
- Zonitoides arboreus – land snail found in, but not indigenous to the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Slovakia and various greenhouses in other countries
- Zonitoides nitidus – small land snail found mostly in Europe, but also in other countries
List of bivalve species in alphabetical order
- Amblema plicata - the threeridge, a freshwater mussel
- Anodontoides sp. - a freshwater mussel
- Corbicula fluminea - the Asian clam, introduced
- Dreissena polymorpha - the zebra mussel, an invasive introduced species
- Elliptio dilatata - spike mussel or lady finger
- Fusconaia flava - a freshwater mussel
- Lampsilis cardium - a freshwater mussel
- Lasmigona complanata - the white heelsplitter
- Lasmigona compressa - the creek heelsplitter
- Lasmigona costata - heelsplitter
- Musculium sp. - a freshwater clam
- Pisidium sp. - a pea clam
- Pleurobema sintoxia - the round pigtoe
- Quadrula pustulosa - the pimpleback
- Quadrula quadrula - the mapleleaf
- Sphaerium occidentale - a fingernail clam
- Sphaerium simile - a fingernail clam
- Strophitus undulatus - a freshwater mussel
- Venustaconcha ellipsiformis - the ellipse, a freshwater mussel
- Villosa iris - the rainbow mussel
References
- ^ "NPS - Page In-Progress".
- ^ Temporary list of Species found (June 6, 2009) Archived February 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine