Database details : World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 90% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca |
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| Short name: | MolluscaFW |
| Version: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2012-07-16 |
| Authors/editors: | Seddon M. & Rowson B. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Mollusca - Gastropoda |
| English name of the group: | Fresh water gastropods |
| Number of living species | 3,765 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 1,861 |
| Number of common names: | 16 |
| Total number of names: | 5,642 |
| Abstract: | The World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca project was first established at the National Museum & Galleries of Wales in 2004. It was compiled from a variety of published sources, as well as reviewing Zoological Record for newly described species. The checklist now contains 6,500 species with names considered valid, and a total of 10,500 names in all. All of the taxonomic reviewers through 2007-2008 are thanked for their assistance in producing this checklist. MolluscaFW supplies only gastropods in the Catalogue of Life. MolluscaFW contributes freshwater taxa in the CoL proto-GSD. |
| Organization: | Shell Life, UK |
| Website: |
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| Bibliographic citation: | Seddon M. & Rowson B. (2025). MolluscaFW: World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca (version 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |