Picture Guide of Some Louisiana Snails for Survey Inspectors

by

Patrick Marquez

USDA-APHIS-PPQ

11840 S. La Cienega Blvd.

Hawthorne, CA 90250

Last update August 21, 2012

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Bradybaenidae, Bradybaena similaris (Férussac)

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Bulimulidae, Bulimulus corumbaensis Pilsbry

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Bulimulidae, Bulimulus corumbaensis with protoconch under different lighting.

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Helicinidae, Helicina (Oligyra) orbiculata (Say)

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Oxychilidae, Oxychilus spp. or Zonitidae, Glyphyalinia spp. (???)

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Polygyridae, Polygyra cereolus (Mühlfeld, 1818)

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Polygyridae, Praticolella mexicana Perez

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Strobilopsidae, Strobilops sp. texasiana (???)

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Subulinidae, Allopeas gracile (Hutton 1834)

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Succineidae, Calcisuccinea sp.

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References

Cheatum, E. P. & Richard W. Fullington

1971a The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas. Part One: The Recent and Pleistocene members of the gastropod family Polygyridae in Texas. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 1(1): 1-74.

1971b The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas. Supplement: Keys to the families of the Recent Land and Freshwater snails of Texas. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 1(Suppl.): 1-18.

1973 The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas. Part Two: The Recent and Pleistocene members of the Pupillidae and Urocoptidae (Gastropoda) in Texas. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 1(2): 1-67.

Minton, R. L. & Perez, K. E.

2005. A Systematic Checklist of the Land Snails of Louisiana. The Texas Journal of Science, 57(2):1-12.

Pilsbry, Henry

1939 Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, (3), 1(1): 1-573. 1940.

Acknowledgements

Kathryn E. Perez, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, 1725 State Street, La Crosse, WI 54601, U.S.A. http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/faculty/perez/ David G. Robinson, Ph.D., USDA APHIS PPQ, Department of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, U.S.A.

Personal Communications

Thanks to Dr. Bram Breure (Breure@xs4all.nl) for identifying Bulimulus corumbaensis specimens. Special thanks to Kathryn Perez for her time and effort identifying Polygyridae specimens.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Greg Bartman, Los Angeles CA Sara Bombase, San Diego CA

Debbie Cervantes, San Diego CA Suzete Gomes, Philadelphia PA

David G. Robinson, Philadelphia PA