List of non-marine molluscs of Slovakia
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Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247[1] species of molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses.[2]
There are a total of 219[1] species of gastropods, which breaks down to 51[1] species of freshwater gastropods, and 168[1] species of land gastropods, plus 28[1] species of bivalves living in the wild.
There are 8 non-indigenous gastropod species (3 freshwater and 5 land species) and 3 species of bivalves in the wild in Slovakia. This is a total of 6 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.
- Summary table of number of species
Slovakia | |
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freshwater gastropods | 51[1] |
land gastropods | 168[1] |
gastropods altogether | 219[1] |
bivalves | 28[1] |
molluscs altogether | 247[1] |
non-indigenous gastropods in the wild | 3 freshwater and 5 land |
non-indigenous synantrop gastropods | 9 |
non-indigenous bivalves in the wild | 3 |
non-indigenous synantrop bivalves | 0 |
non-indigenous molluscs altogether | 20 |
There are 2 extinct species in Slovakia (locally extinct): Theodoxus transversalis and Esperiana esperi.[citation needed]
There are endemic species of molluscs in Slovakia:
- Alzoniella slovenica in Slovakia (and in Moravia in the Czech Republic too)
- Alopia bielzii clathrata (Rossmässler, 1857)
- Deroceras fatrense