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List of non-marine molluscs of the Cook Islands

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Location of the Cook Islands

The non-marine molluscs of Cook Islands are a part of the molluscan fauna of the Cook Islands. There are 14 species of land snails listed as extinct in 2009 IUCN Red List, and 48 species of land gastropods.

Gastropoda

Freshwater gastropods

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Land gastropods

Assimineidae

Endodontidae

Drawing of the shell of an extinct snail Sinployea decorticata.

Charopidae

Vertiginidae

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Freshwater bivalves

The status of freshwater bivalves in this area is currently unknown.

See also

References

  1. IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 7 November 2009.
  2. ^ Brook F. J. (2010). "Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences". Tuhinga: records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 21: 161-252. abstract.
  3. Solem A. (7 January 1983) Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ISSN 0015-0754.
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