page_title: List of non-marine molluscs of Venezuela
section_title: Freshwater gastropods
hierarchical_section_title: List of non-marine molluscs of Venezuela / List of non-marine molluscs of Venezuela / Freshwater gastropods
caption_attribution_description: Pomacea interrupta
context_page_description: The non-marine molluscs of Venezuela are a part of the molluscan fauna of Venezuela. Non-marine molluscs are the snails, clams and mussels that live in freshwater habitats, and the snails and slugs that live on land. Sea-dwelling molluscs are not included in this list.
  A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Venezuela.
context_section_description: Freshwater gastropods include:
  Ampullariidae
  Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823)
  Marisa cornuarietis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Pomacea amazonica (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea aurostoma (Lea, 1856)
  Pomacea avellana (Sowerby, 1909)
  Pomacea bridgesi (Reeve, 1856) (Introduced species)
  Pomacea camena (Pain, 1956)
  Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1819) (Introduced species)
  Pomacea chemnitzii (Philippi, 1887)
  Pomacea cingulata (Philippi, 1851)
  Pomacea crassa (Swainson, 1823)
  Pomacea dolioides (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea eximia (Dunker, 1853)
  Pomacea falconensis Pain y Arias, 1958
  Pomacea glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Pomacea glauca crocostoma (Philippi, 1852)
  Pomacea glauca gevesensis (Deshayes, 1801)
  Pomacea glauca luteostoma (Swainson, 1822 )
  Pomacea glauca orinocensis (Troschel,  1848)
  Pomacea haustrum (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea interrupta (Sowerby, 1909)
  Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)
  Pomacea minuscula Baker 1930
  Pomacea nobilis (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea oblonga (Swainson, 1823)
  Pomacea papyracea (Spix, 1827)
  Pomacea patula (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea semitecta (Mousson, 1873)
  Pomacea superba (Marshall, 1928)
  Pomacea swainsoni (Revee, 1856)
  Pomacea tamsiana (Philippi, 1852)
  Pomacea urceus (Müller, 1774)
  Pomacea urceus guyanensis (Lamarck, 1810)
  Pomacea urceus olivacea (Spix, 1827)
  Pomacea vexillun (Revee, 1856)
  Ancylidae
  Gundlachia saulcyana (Bourguignat, 1853)
  Hebetancylus moricandi (D’Orbigny, 1837)
  Hydrobiidae
  Pyrgophorus coronatus (Pfeiffer, 1840)
  Pyrgophorus ernesti (Martens, 1873)
  Pyrgophorus globulus (Baker, 1930)
  Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828)
  Pyrgophorus putialis (Baker, 1930)
  Pyrgophorus platyrachis Thompson, 1968
  Lymnaeidae
  
  There are two native and four introduced species of Lymnaeidae in Venezuela:
  Lymnaea meridensis Bargues, Artigas & Mas-Coma, 2011 - synonym: Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887) hitherto known from Venezuelan highlands - native
  Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007) - native
  Galba cubensis  (Pfeiffer, 1839) - introduced from the Caribbean area
  Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) - introduced from the Caribbean area
  Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774) - introduced from the Old World,
  Galba viatrix (D’Orbigny, 1835) from Venezuela was identified as Galba truncatula
  Galba schirazensis (Küster, 1862) - introduced from the Old World
  Neritidae
  Neritina meleagris (Lamarck, 1822)
  Neritina piratica Russell,   1943
  Neritina puncticulata (Lamarck, 1816)
  Neritina reclivata (Say, 1822)
  Neritina virginea (Linnaeus 1758)
  Pachychilidae
  Doryssa atra (Bruguièri, 1792)
  Doryssa consolidata (Bruguièri, 1789)
  Doryssa grunei (Jonas, 1844)
  Doryssa lamarckiana (Brot, 1870)
  Doryssa hohenackeri (Philippi, 1851)
  Doryssa kappleri (Vernhout, 1914)
  Doryssa transversa (Lea, 1850)
  Pachychilus laevisimus (Sowerby, 1824)
  Physidae
  Aplexa rivalis (Manton & Rackett, 1807)
  Stenophysa acuminata (Gray & Sowerby, 1873)
  Planorbidae
  Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818)
  Biomphalaria havanensis (Dunker, 1850)
  Biomphalaria kuhniama (Clessin, 1883)
  Biomphalaria pergrina  (D’Orbigny, 1835)
  Bionphalaria pronum (Von Martens 1873)
  Biomphalaria straminea  (Dunker, 1848)
  Biomphalaria tenagofila (D’Orbigny, 1835)
  Drepanotrema anatium (D’Orbigny, 1835)
  Drepanotrema cimex (Moricand, 1839)
  Drepanotrema depressissmum (Moricand, 1839)
  Drepanotrema kermatoides (D’Orbigny, 1835)
  Drepanotrema lucidum (Pfeiffer, 1839)
  Drepanotrema surinamensis (Dunker & Clessin, 1884)
  Planorbella duryi (Wetherby 1879) (introduced species)
  Planorbis circumlineatus  Shuttleworth, 1854
  Thiaridae
  Aylacostoma lineolata (Gray, 1828)
  Aylacostoma stringillata (Dumker, 1843)
  Aylacostoma venezuelensis (Dumker & Revee, 1859)
  Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (introduced species)
  Thiara granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (introduced species)
caption: A shell of Pomacea interrupta
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