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Snails of the Marshall IslandsContents:  Subclass Prosobranchia (gill bearers)Family HydrobiidaeFamily PupinidaeFamily AssimineidaeFamily 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 AchatinellidaeFamily Pupillidae - (minute, some resemble tiny barrels, kegs with ribs, or pinecones, under dead leaves, tree bark, coral rocks)Family AchatinidaeFamily SubulinidaeFamily Zonitidae - (flattish, five-coiled spirals with low spiral, found on scrubs and ferns)Family Bradybaenidae?Family VeronicellidaeFamily OnchidiidaeREFERENCESSubclass 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. 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