This list of non-marine molluscs of the Netherlands is a list of all molluscs other than the marine (salt water) species that live in the Netherlands. This list comprises land snails and slugs, freshwater snails and freshwater clams and mussels. There are 197 non-marine mollusc species living in natural habitats in the Netherlands.
Location of the Netherlands
There are 169 gastropod (snail and slug) species (52 freshwater and 117 land species), and 28 freshwater bivalve (clams and mussel) species living in the wild.
As for introduced species, there are 23 introduced gastropod species (2 freshwater and 21 land species plus Candidula unifasciata as possibly non-indigenous one), and 4 bivalve species, living in natural habitats in the Netherlands. A total of 5 freshwater non-indigenous species live in natural habitats.
This list includes only orders, families and species. (Non-indigenous species only occurring greenhouses in the Netherlands are noted separately, below the main list.)
Dillon R. T., Wethington A. R., Rhett J. M. & Smith T. P. 2002. Populations of the European freshwater pulmonate Physa acuta are not reproductively isolated from American Physa heterostopha or Physa integra. Invertebrate Biology, 121: 226-234. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2002.tb00062.x
Henk K. Mienis. January 2007. A second record for Milax nigricans (Philippi, 1836) from the Netherlands. Tentacle 15Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine: 15-16.
(Dutch)Bruyne, R.H. de, 1991. Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij Stichting Uitgevrij KNNV, 165 pag.
(Dutch) De Bruyne, R.H., Wallbrink, H. & Gmelig Meyling, A. 2003. Bedreigde en verdwenen land- en zoetwaterweekdieren in Nederland (Mollusca). Basisrapport met voorstel voor de Rode Lijst. European Invertebrate Survey-Nederland, Leiden & Stichting Anemoon, Heemstede. (Red list of Dutch molluscs.)
(Dutch)Bruyne, R.H. de, Bank, R.A., Adema, J.P.H.M. & Perk, F.A., 1994. Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en België. Feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestigjarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. Backhuys, Leiden. 149 pp.ISBN90-73348-33-1
(Dutch)Gittenberger, E., Backhys, W., Ripken, Th.E.J., 1984. De landslakken van Nederland. KNNV, Hoogwoud, 184 pp. [2e druk]
(Dutch)Gittenberger, E., Janssen, A.W., Kuijper, W.J., Kuiper, J.G.J., Meijer, T., Velde, G. van der & Vries, J.N. de, 1998. De Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Recente en fossiele weekdieren uit zoet en brak water. Nederlandse Fauna 2. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, KNNV Uitgeverij & EIS-Nederland, Leiden, 288 pp.ISBN90-5011-201-3
(German)Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J.H., 1983. Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Hamburg/Berlin, 384 pp.
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