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Snails of the Marshall Islands
Contents:
Subclass Prosobranchia (gill bearers)
Family Hydrobiidae
Family Pupinidae
Family Assimineidae
Family Truncatellidae (very small operculate shells)
Family Thiaridae (minute, associated with freshwater plants, muddy river and swamp bottoms)
Family Ellobiidae - (small, solid shells with teeth on columella, brownish)
Family Siphonariidae - (false limpets)
Family Achatinellidae
Family Pupillidae - (minute, some resemble tiny barrels, kegs with ribs, or pinecones, under dead leaves, tree bark, coral rocks)
Family Achatinidae
Family Subulinidae
Family Zonitidae - (flattish, five-coiled spirals with low spiral, found on scrubs and ferns)
Family Bradybaenidae?
Family Veronicellidae
Family Onchidiidae
REFERENCES
Subclass Prosobranchia (gill bearers)
Family Hydrobiidae
Sientific name: Paludinella semperi
English name: operculate freshwater snail
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: data deficient, category of IUCN for Marshalls, Palau
Family Pupinidae
Sientific name: Pupina complanata
English name: pupina
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: data deficient, category of IUCN for Marshalls, FSM
Family Assimineidae
Sientific name: Assiminae nitida marshallensis
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit; on pandanus, endemic
Sientific name: Omphalotropis fragilis
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit; on pandanus
Family Truncatellidae (very small operculate shells)
Sientific name: Truncatella guerinii
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: strandline, under debris near seashore, wide distribution hut always rare, data deficient, category by IUCN for Japan
Subclass Pulmonata (lung-bearers)
Family Thiaridae (minute, associated with freshwater plants, muddy river and swamp bottoms)
Sientific name: unidentified thiarid sp.
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit; fresh, brackish water
Family Ellobiidae - (small, solid shells with teeth on columella, brownish)
Sientific name: Melampus fasciatus
English name: banded melampus
Marshallese name: alu
Status or range: strandline, wide distribution
Sientific name: Melampus luteus
English name: yellow melampus
Marshallese name: alu
Status or range: strandline, wide distribution
Sientific name: Melampus semplicata
English name: brown melampus
Marshallese name: alu
Status or range: strandline, wide distribution
Family Siphonariidae - (false limpets)
Sientific name: Siphonaria guamensis
English name: Guam false limpet
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Enewetak
Sientific name: Siphonaria normalis
English name: false limpet
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Enewetak
Family Achatinellidae
Sientific name: Lamellidea pusilla
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: widely distributed by man
Sientific name: Pacificella variablilis
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit
Family Pupillidae - (minute, some resemble tiny barrels, kegs with ribs, or pinecones, under dead leaves, tree bark, coral rocks)
Sientific name: Gastrocopta pediculus
English name: little louse gasrocopta
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: widely distributed by man, throughout Pacific
Sientific name: Gastrocopta servilis
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: widely distributed by man
Family Achatinidae
Sientific name: Achatina fulica
English name: giant African snail
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: introduced pest, serious destroyer of plants
Family Subulinidae
Sientific name: Subulina octona
English name: octona shell
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, widely distributed by man
Sientific name: ?Paropeas achatinaceum
English name: subulid
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, introduced
Sientific name: Allopeas gracile
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit, widely distributed by man
Family Zonitidae - (flattish, five-coiled spirals with low spiral, found on scrubs and ferns)
Sientific name: Liardetia sp.?
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Jaluit, on pandanus
Family Bradybaenidae?
Sientific name: unidentified species ?
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, introduced
Sientific name: unidentified species?
English name: ?
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, introduced
Family Veronicellidae
Sientific name: Laevicaulis alte?
English name: black oval land slug
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, introduced throughout the tropics
Sientific name: Vaginulus plebeius?
English name: brown narrow land slug
Marshallese name: ?
Status or range: Majuro, introduced throughout the tropics
Family Onchidiidae
Sientific name: Onchidella sp.?
English name: leather limpet
Marshallese name: padobar
Status or range: Majuro, high intertidal rocks
REFERENCES
Abott, R. Tucker 1989. Compedium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc. Melborne, Florida
Abbott, R. Tucker and S. Peter Dance 1990. Compendium of Seashells. American Malacologists, Inc. Melbourne, Florida
Cowie, Robert 1997. Homogenization of Pacific island snail, in IUCN World Conservation, Invaders from Planet Earth
Kay, E. Alison and Scott Johnson 1987. Mollusca of Enewetak Atoll, in Devaney, D. M. et al. The Natural History of Enewetak Atoll. United States Department of Energy
Brost, F. B. and R. D. Coale 1971. A Guide to Shell Collecting in the Kwajelein Atoll. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont
Kondo, Yoshio 1961- Gastropod Molluscs Collected by J. L. Gressitt in Blummenstock, David I. et al. A report on typhoon effects upon Jaluit Atoll. Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 75, pp. 105
Johnson, Jeanette and Scott Johnson 1995. Kwajalein Shells. Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
Roth, Alexander Jr. 1980. Mollusks of the Southern Mariana Islands. Aljemasu Enterprises, Tamuning, Guam
personal communication: Cowie, Robert H.