NOTE ZOOS' PRINT JOURNAL 20(6): 1912-1913 History (3)12: 184-187+4pls. Blanford, W.T. (1870). Contributions to Indian Malacology, No.XI Descriptions of new species of Paludomus, Cremnoconchus, Cyclostoma A CHECKLIST OF LAND AND and of Helicidae from various parts of India. Journal of the Asiatic FRESHWATER OF Society of Bengal 39(2): 9-25+3pls. Blanford, W.T. (1880). Contributions to Indian Malacology No.XII, MAHARASHTRA STATE Descriptions of new land and freshwater shells from southern and western India, Burmah, the Andaman Islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of S.G. Patil and S.S. Talmale Bengal 49(2): 181-222+I,IIpls. Blanford, W.T. and H.H.G. Austen (1908). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Mollusca I: Testacellidae and Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Station, Sector 29, Zonitidae. Taylor & Francis, London, 311pp. Vidyanagar, Rawet Road, P.C.N.T. Post, Pune, Maharashtra Gude, G.K. (1914). 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Freshwater Mollusca of Melghat Tiger Project in some parts of India (Subba Rao & Dey, 1989). Shells of some Maharashtra State. Fauna of Conservation area series, Zoological Survey of molluscs are used for making buttons and in manufacture of of India Publication. poultry food. Some of them are also intermediate hosts for Patil, S.G. and S.S. Talmale (2003). Occurrence of a pestiferous land Mollusca from Maharashtra on new host plants. Bionotes 5(3): 71. parasites, like Pila globosa, Lymnaea etc. (Subba Rao, 1989). Preston, H.B. (1915). Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Mollusca: Freshwater and Pelecypoda. London, Maharashtra state with three biogeographic zones (West Coast, xix +244pp. Western Ghats & Deccan plataeu) is located between 1508'- Rao, H.S. (1925). On certain succineid Molluscs from the Western 2201'N and 7206'-8009'E with a total area over 3,07,690km2 and a Ghats, Bombay Presidency. Records of the Indian Musuem 27: 385- 400. coast line of 720km in the west. The molluscan fauna of this Rao, V.T. and F. Ramadoss (1953). Damage to vegetable crops by state has not been studied thoroughly and the available observed in the Krishna District and the experiments on their information on the freshwater and land molluscs is scattered. control. Journal of the Zoological Society of India 5: 211-216. Perusal of literature shows that a few workers like Blanford Subba Rao, N.V. (1989). Handbook of Freshwater Molluscs of India. (1863, 1870, 1880), Preston (1915), Annandale (1919), Annandale Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 289pp. and Prashad (1919), Hora (1925), Tonapi and Mulherkar (1963), Subba Rao, N.V. and A. Dey (1989). Freshwater Molluscs in Aquaculture, pp. 225-232. In: Handbook of Freshwater Molluscs of Tonapi (1971), Subba Rao and Mitra (1979), Subba Rao (1989), India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 289pp. Surya Rao et al. (2002), Patil (2003), and Patil and Talmale (2003) Subba Rao, N.V. and S.C. Mitra (1975). On collections of Mollusca have made contributions. However, except for Subba Rao and from Poona and adjacent districts. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey Mitra (1979) there is no updated information available on this of India 1(4): 77-79. group in Maharashtra. Subba Rao, N.V. and S.C. Mitra (1979). On land and freshwater Molluscs of Pune district, Maharashtra. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 75: 1-37. This paper lists altogether 142 species of molluscs with all forms Surya Rao, K.V., S.C. Mitra and S. Maitra (2002). Mollusca of and varieties belonging to 48 genera, under 23 families. This Ujani Wetland, pp. 110-115. Wetland Ecosystem Series 2: Fauna of checklist of land and freshwater mollusca of Maharashtra state Ujani. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. is based on past and present records, and from recent surveys Tonapi, G.T. and L. Mulherkar (1963). On the freshwater molluscs of Poona. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 60(1): 104- made in this area by many parties of Western Regional Station, 120+i-v+Map. Zoological Survey of India, Pune. There is still a need for Tonapi, G.T. (1971). Studies on the freshwater and amphibious Mollusca detailed study of the fauna of Western Ghats in Maharashtra. of Poona with notes on their distribution - Part II. Journal of the Information on ecology and systematics of land molluscs such Bombay Natural History Society 68(1): 115-126. as slugs and amphibian molluscs is grossly inadequate. Further, extensive surveys of this area will undoubtedly reveal the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS existence of many more species than what is known today. The authors are thankful to Dr. J.R.B. Alfred, Director,Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata and to Dr. Anil Mahabal, Officer-in-Charge, Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Station, Pune for facilities. Thanks REFERENCES are also due to Dr. M.S.Pradhan, Scientist-D, for going through the Annandale, N. (1919). The fauna of certain small streams in Bombay manuscript. Presidency. Records of the Indian Museum 16: 117-120. Annandale, N. and B. Prashad (1919). Some freshwater Mollusca from the Bombay Precidency. Records of the Indian Museum 16: 139- 152+4,5pls. Blanford, W.R. (1863). Descriptions of Cremnocochus syhadrensis and Lithotis rupicola two new generic forms of Mollusca inhabiting cliffs in the Western Ghats of India. Annals and Magazine of Natural © Zoo Outreach Organisation; www.zoosprint.org Manuscript 1149; Received 10 February 2004; Revised received 03 May 2004; Finally accepted 26 April 2005; Date of publication 21 May 2005 1912 June 2005 | ISSN 0971-6378 A checklist of land and freshwater molluscs of Maharashtra S.G. Patil & S.S. Talmale

Table 1. Checklist of land and freshwater molluscs of Maharashtra

Phylum: Mollusca Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata f. rufescens Zootecus insularis (Ehrenberg) Class: Gastropoda Gray Family: Order: Mesogastropoda Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata ssp. tonapii Subfamily: Ariophantinae Family: Cyclophoridae Ray & Roy Choudhury Ariophanta bajadera (Pfeiffer) Cyathopoma deccanense Blanford Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata f. typica Ariophanta laevipes (Muller) Cyclophorus (Annularia) aurantiacus (Schumacher) Lamarck Cryptozona (Nilgiria) semirugata (Beck) Cyclophorus (Glossostylus) indicus (Deshayes) Lymnaea (Radix) auricularia (Linnaeus) Cryptozona (Xestina) belangeri var. bombayana Cyclophorus (Litostylus) involvulus (Muller) Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) brevissima (Annandale (Pfeiffer) Cyclophorus (Glossostylus) stenomphalus Pfeiffer & Rao) Cryptozona (Xestina) bistrialis (Beck) Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola (Lamarck) Family: Diplommatinidae Euplecta subdecussata Pfeiffer Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola f. australis Nicida liricincta Blanford Annandale & Rao Subfamily: Kaliellinae Opisthostoma fairbanki Blanford Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola f. impura Kaliella barrackporensis Pfeiffer Family: Pomatiasidae Troschel Kaliella bullula (Hutton) Cyclotopsis semistriata (Sowerby) Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola f. succinea Deshayes Subfamily: Macrochlamydinae Family: Viviparidae Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola f. typica Macrochlamys indica (Godwin & Austen) Subfamily: Bellamyinae Lamarck Macrochlamys infaustra Blanford Bellamya bengalensis form annandalai (Kobelt) Lymnaea pinguis Dohrn Macrochlamys pedina (Benson) Bellamya bengalensis form bengalensis (Lamarck) Macrochlamys petasus (Benson) Bellamya bengalensis form doliaris (Gould) Family: Planorbidae Macrochlamys petrosa (Hutton) Bellamya bengalensis form eburnea (Annandale) Subfamily: Buliniae Macrochlamys tenuicula (H. Adams) Bellamya bengalensis form incrassatus Annandale Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes) Subfamily: Girasiinae Bellamya bengalensis form mandiensis Kobelt Subfamily: Planorbinae dussumieri Gray Bellamya dissimilis (Muller) Gyraulus convexiusculus (Hutton) Subfamily: Durgellinae Family: Pilidae Gyraulus labiatus (Benson) Sitala denselirata Preston Pila globosa (Swainson) Gyraulus rotula (Benson) Pila virens (Lamarck) Order: Systellommatophora Subfamily: Helicarioninae Turbinicola saxea (Reeve) Family: Veronicellidae Eyrychlamys platychamys Blanford Pseudaustenia atra Godwin-Austen Family: Hydrobiidae Laevicaulis alte (Ferussac) Subfamily: Bithyninae Sarasinula plebeja (Fischer) Family: Trochomorphidae Digoniostoma cerameopoma (Benson) Semperula birmanica (Theobald) Trochomorpha (Sivela) billiana (Morch) Digoniostoma pulchella (Benson) Semperula maculata (Templeton) Gabbia orcula Frauenfeld Family: Pleurodontidae Order: Gabbia orcula var. producta (Nevill) Chloritis leithi Gude Family: Succineidae Gabbia stenothyroides (Dohrn) Chloritis propinqua (Pfeiffer) Indosuccinea khandalla Rao Sataria evezardi (Blanford) Planispira (Trachia) crassicostata (Benson) Lithotis rupicola Blanford Planispira footei Stoliczka Family: Thiaridae Lithotis tumida Blanford Planispira proxima (Ferussac) Subfamily: Thiariinae Succinea bensoni Pfeiffor Thiara (Tarebia) lineata (Gray) Succinea collina Hanley & Theobald Family: Fruticicoloidae Thiara (Melanoides) pyramis (Hutton) Succinea raoi Subba Rao and Mitra Eulota scalpturita (Benson) Succinea tornadri Rao Thiara (Melanoides) pyramis var. leopardina Family: Vallonidae Annandale & Prashad Family: Cerastuidae Pupisoma evezardi (Blanford) Thiara (Melanoides) pyramis var. puteicola Subfamily: Napaeinae Annandale & Prashad Family: Streptaxidae Cerastus abyssinicus (Pfeiffer) Thiara (Melanoides) riqueti (Grateloup) Streptaxis scalptus Blanford Cerastus densus (Pfeiffer) Thiara (Thiara) scabra (Muller) Cerastus distans (Pfeiffer) Class: Bivalvia Thiara (Thiara) scabra var. elegans (Benson) Cerastus jerdoni (Reeve) Order: Eulamellibranchiata Thiara (Melanoides) tuberculatus (Muller) Cerastus jerdoni var. redfieldi (Pfeiffer) Family: Unionidae Subfamily: Melanatrinae Cerastus moussonianus (Petit) Subfamily: Unioninae Sulcospira (Sulcospira) hugely var. compacta Nevill Rachis bengalensis Lamarck Lamellidens consobrinus (Lea) Rachis praetermissus Blanford Lamellidens corrianus (Lea) Subfamily: Paludominae Rachis punctatus (Anton) Lamellidens lamellatus (Lea) Paludomus (Paludomus) obesus (Philippi) Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck) Family: Subulinidae Paludomus (Stomatodon) stomatodon Benson Lamellidens marginalis var. cylindrica (Hanley & Subfamily: Subulininae Paludomus tanschaurica var. malabarica Nevill Theobald) Glessula arthuri (Benson) Subfamily: Melanopsinae Glessula brevis (Pfeiffer) Subfamily: Parreysiinae Faunus ater (Linnaeus) Glessula ceylanica (Pfeiffer) Parreysia (Radiatula) caerulea Lea Family: Glessula chessoni (Benson) Parreysia (Parreysia) corrugata Muller Cremnoconchus (Cremnoconchus) syhadrensis Glessula dikrangense Godwin-Austen Parreysia (Parreysia) corrugata (Muller) sub sp. (Blanford) Glessula gemma (Reeve) laevirostris (Benson) Cremnoconchus (Lissoconchus) conicus (Blanford) Glessula hebes (Blanford) Parreysia corrugata var. nagpoorensis (Lea) Cremnoconchus conicus var. edecollata Nevill Glessula illustris var. tumida Godwin-Austen Parreysia (Parreysia) cylindrica Annandale & Prashad Cremnoconchus (Lissoconchus) carinatus (Layard) Glessula lyrata Blanford Parreysia favidens (Benson) Glessula notigena (Benson) Parreysia favidens var. marcens (Benson) Order: Basommatophora Glessula pulla Blanford Parreysia (Radiatula) khadakvaslaensis (Ray) Family: Lymnaeidae Glessula rugata Blanford Parreysia rajahensis (Lea) Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata (Lamarck) Glessula singhurensis Blanford Family: Corbiculidae Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata f. gracilior Glessula tornensis Blanford Martens Corbicula krishnaea Ray Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata var. nana Family: Opeatinae Corbicula peninsularis Prashad Annandale Opeas gracile (Hutton) Corbicula regularis Prime Corbicula striatella Deshayes Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata f. patula Subfamily: Rumininae Troschel Zootecus chion (Pfeiffer)

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