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The non-marine molluscs of India are a part of the molluscan fauna of India.
There are 5070 species of marine and non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India.[1] There are 3371 species of marine molluscs in India.[2]
There are 1671 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in India. This includes 1488 terrestrial species in 140 genera and 183 freshwater species in 53 genera.[2]
There are a total of species of gastropods, which breaks down to ?? species of freshwater gastropods, and 1488 species of land gastropods, plus ?? species of bivalves living in the wild.
- Summary table of number of species
| India | |
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| freshwater gastropods | ?? |
| land gastropods | 1488 (??? species of snails and ??? species of slugs) |
| gastropods altogether | ??? |
| bivalves | ?? |
| non-marine molluscs altogether | 1671 |
| non-indigenous gastropods in the wild | ? freshwater and ? land |
| non-indigenous synanthropic gastropods | ? |
| non-indigenous bivalves in the wild | ? |
| non-indigenous synanthropic bivalves | ? |
| non-indigenous molluscs altogether | ? |
- ^ Alfred, J.R.B. (1998) Faunal Diversity in India: An Overview: In Faunal Diversity in India, i–viii, 1–495. (Editors. Alfred, JRB, et al., 1998). ENVIS Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
- ^ a b Aravind N. A., Rajshekhar K. P. & Madhaystha N. A. Patterns of Land Snail Distribution in the Western Ghats. last change 10 October 2006, accessed 1 March 2009.
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