Bibliography for the Identification of North American Freshwater Snails

Taxonomic Index

Prepared by Rob Dillon for the FWGNA Project


Valvatidae

Hannibal, H. (1910) Valvatidae of the western North America. Nautilus 23(8):104-107.

Walker, B.  (1902)  A revision of the carinate valvatas of the United States. Nautilus, 15: 121-125.

 

Pleuroceridae

Chambers, S.M. (1990) The genus Elimia (= Goniobasis) in Florida (Prosobranchia: Pleuroceridae). Walkerana, 4, 237-70.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog post of [15Feb17]

Chambers, S. M. (1980) Genetic divergence between populations of Goniobasis occupying different drainage systems. Malacologia, 20, 113-20.

Dillon, R. (2011)  Robust shell phenotype is a local response to stream size in the genus Pleurocera (Rafinesque 1818).  Malacologia 53: 265-277. [pdf]

Dillon, R.T., Jr.  (2014)  Cryptic phenotypic plasticity in populations of the North American freshwater gastropod, Pleurocera semicarinata.  Zoological Studies  53(31):1-7. [pdf]

Dillon, R. T., S. J. Jacquemin & M. Pyron (2013)  Cryptic phenotypic plasticity in populations of the freshwater prosobranch snail, Pleurocera canaliculata.  Hydrobiologia 709: 117-127.  [pdf]

Dillon, R. & Keferl, E. (2000) A survey of the pleurocerid gastropods of South Carolina.  In Freshwater Mollusk Symposia Proceedings, Part II, eds. Tankersley, Warmolts, Watters, Armitage, Johnson & Butler, pp. 153 - 160.  Columbus: Ohio Biological Survey. [pdf]

Dillon, R.  & Lydeard, C. (1998) Divergence among Mobile Basin populations of the pleurocerid snail genus, Leptoxis, estimated by allozyme electrophoresis. Malacologia, 39, 113-21. [pdf]

Dillon, R. & Davis, G. M. (1980) The Goniobasis of southern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina: Genetic and shell morphometric relationships. Malacologia, 20, 83-98. [pdf]

Dillon, R. & Reed, A. (2002) A survey of genetic variation at allozyme loci among Goniobasis populations inhabiting Atlantic drainages of the Carolinas.  Malacologia 44: 23 - 31. [pdf]

Dillon, R. T. & J. D. Robinson (2011)  The opposite of speciation: Genetic relationships among the populations of Pleurocera (Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae) in central Georgia.  Am. Malac. Bull. 29: 159-168. [pdf]

Dillon, R. (2011)  Robust shell phenotype is a local response to stream size in the genus Pleurocera (Rafinesque 1818).  Malacologia 53: 265-277.

Goodrich, C. (1922) The Anculosae of the Alabama River drainage. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 7, 1-57. For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [15Sept09].

Goodrich, C. (1924) The genus Gyrotoma. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 12, 1-29.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of  [5Sept18].

Goodrich, C. (1930) Goniobases of the vicinity of Muscle Shoals. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 209, 1-25

Goodrich, C. (1931) The pleurocerid genus Eurycaelon. Occas. Pprs. Mus.  Zool. Univ. Mich., 223, 1-9

Goodrich, C. (1936) Goniobasis of the Coosa River, Alabama. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 31, 1-60

Goodrich, C. (1939a) Pleuroceridae of the St. Lawrence River Basin. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 404, 1-4

Goodrich, C. (1939b) Pleuroceridae of the Mississippi River basin exclusive of the Ohio River system. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 406, 1-4

Goodrich, C. (1940) The Pleuroceridae of the Ohio River system. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 417, 1-21

Goodrich, C. (1941a) Pleuroceridae of the small streams of the Alabama River system. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 427, 1-10

Goodrich, C. (1942a) The Pleuroceridae of the Atlantic coastal plain. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 456, 1-6

Goodrich, C. (1942b) Pleuroceridae of the Pacific Coastal Drainage, including the western interior basin. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 469, 1-4

Goodrich, C. (1944a) Pleuroceridae of the Great Basin. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 485, 1-11

Goodrich, C. (1944c) Pleuroceridae of the Coosa River basin. Nautilus, 58, 40-8.

Graf, D. (2001)  The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North of Mexico.  Walkerana, 12, 1 - 124.

Lydeard, C., Holznagel, W.E., Garner, J., Hartfield, P., & Pierson, J.M. (1997)  A molecular phylogeny of Mobile River drainage basin pleurocerid snails (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioiidea).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7: 117-128.

Lydeard, C., Yoder, J.H., Holznagel, W.E., Thompson, F.G., & Hartfield, P. (1998)  Phylogenetic utility of the 5'-half of mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences for inferring relationships of Elimia (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae).  Malacologia 39:183-193.

Mihalcik, E.L., and F.G. Thompson (2002)  A taxonomic revision of the freshwater snails referred to as Elimia curvicostata, and related species. Walkerana 13(29-30):1-108.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [14Mar17].

Minton, R.L., and C. Lydeard. 2003.  Phylogeny, taxonomy, genetics and global heritage ranks of an imperilled, freshwater snail genus Lithasia (Pleuroceridae). Molecular Ecology 12(1):75-87.

Strong, E. E., and T. J. Frest.  2007.  On the anatomy and systematics of Juga from western North America (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae).  The Nautilus 121: 43-65. 

Thompson, F. (2000) Freshwater snails of the genus Elimia from the Coosa River system, Alabama.  Walkerana 11: 1 - 54.

Hydrobioids, broadly

Hershler, R., T. Frest, H.-P. Liu, & E. Johannes.  (2003)  Rissooidean snails from the Pit River Basin, California. Veliger, 46: 275-304.

Hershler, R. & Landye, J. (1988) Arizona Hydrobiidae (Prosobranchia: Rissoacea). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 459, 1-63.

Hershler, R. and Liu, H-P (2017) Annotated Checklist of Freshwater Truncatelloidean Gastropods of the Western United States, with an Illustrated Key to the Genera. Denver, Colorado: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center.  Technical Note 449.  142 pp.

Johnson, R.I. (1973) Distribution of Hydrobiidae, a family of fresh and brackish water gastropods, in peninsular Florida. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3:281-303.

Kabat, A. & Hershler, R. (1993) The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissoidea): Review of classification and supraspecific taxa. Smithsonian Contrib. Zoology, 547, 1-94.

Thompson, F. G. (1968) The Aquatic Snails of the Family Hydrobiidae of Peninsular Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Watson, C. (2000) Results of a survey for selected species of Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda) in Georgia and Florida.  In Freshwater Mollusk Symposia Proceedings, Part II, eds. Tankersley, Warmolts, Watters, Armitage, Johnson & Butler, pp. 233 - 244.  Columbus: Ohio Biological Survey. 

       Amnicolidae

Berry, E. (1943) The Amnicolidae of Michigan: Distribution, ecology, and taxonomy. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. U. Mich., 57, 1-68.

Thompson, F.G. & Hershler, R. (1991) Two new hydrobiid snails (Amnicolinae) from Florida and Georgia with a discussion of the biogeography of freshwater gastropods of south Georgia streams. Malac. Rev., 24, 55-72.

       Assimineidae

Hershler, R., H.-P. Liu, and B.K. Lang (2007) Genetic and morphological variation of the Pecos Assiminea, an endangered mollusk of the Rio Grande region, United States and Mexico (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Assimineidae). Hydrobiologia 579:317-335. 1-68.


        Cochliopidae

Hershler, R. & Thompson, F.G. (1992) A review of the aquatic gastropod subfamily Cochliopinae (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae). Malacological Review Supplement, 5, 1-140.

Liu, H-P., R. Hershler, and F.G. Thompson (2001) Phylogenetic relationships of the Cochliopinae (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae): An enigmatic group of aquatic gastropods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(1):17-25.

        Hydrobiidae (ss)

Hershler, R. (1989) Springsnails (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) of Owens and Amargosa River (exclusive of Ash meadows) drainages, Death Valley system, California-Nevada. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102:176-248.

Hershler, R. (1994) A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 554, 1-115.

Hershler, R. (1996) Review of the North American aquatic snail genus Probythinella (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae)  Invertebrate Biology 115: 120 - 144.

Hershler, R. (1998) A systematic review of the hydrobiid snails (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) of the Great Basin, western United States.  Part I, Genus Pyrgulopsis.  Veliger 41: 1 - 132.  

Hershler, R. (1999) A systematic review of the hydrobiid snails (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) of the Great Basin, western United States.  Part II, Genera Colligyrus, Eremopyrgus, Fluminicola, Pristinicola, and Tryonia.  Veliger 42: 306 - 338.

Hershler, R. (2001) Systematics of the North and Central American aquatic snail genus Tryonia (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae).  Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 612, 1 - 53.

Hershler, R., T. Frest, E. Johannes, P. Bowler, & F. Thompson  (1994)  Two new genera of hydrobiid snails (Prosobranchia: Rissooidea) from the northwestern United States. Veliger, 37: 221-243.

Hershler, R. & Holsinger, J. R. (1990)  Zoogeography of North American hydrobiid cavesnails.  Stygologia 5: 5 - 16.

Hershler, R., Holsinger, J. & Hubricht, L. (1990) A revision of the North American freshwater snail genus Fontigens (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 509, 1-49

Hershler, R., J. Landye, H-P. Liu et al. (2014)  New Species and Records of Chihuahuan Desert Springsnails, With a New Combination for Tryonia brunei.  Western North American Naturalist 74(1):47-65.

Hershler, R., and H-P. Liu.  (2004)  Taxonomic reappraisal of species assigned to the North American freshwater gastropod subgenus Natricola (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae).  Veliger 47(1):88-81.

Hershler, R., H-P. Liu and J.J. Landye (2011) New species and records of springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Cochliopidae: Tryonia) from the Chihuahuan Desert (Mexico and United States), an imperiled biodiversity hotspot. Zootaxa 3001:1-32.

Hershler, R., Liu, H-P., & Sada, D. W. (2007)  Origin and diversification of the Soldier Meadow springsnails (Hydrobiidae: Pyrgulopsis): A species flock in the northwesten Great Basin, USA.  Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 167 - 183.

Hershler, R., Liu, H-P. & Stockwell, C. (2002) A new genus and species of aquatic gastropods (Rissooidea: Hydrobidae) from the North American Southwest: phylogenetic relationships and biogeography.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 115: 171 - 188.

Hershler, R., H.-P. Liu, & F. Thompson.  (2002)  Phylogenetic relationships of North American nymphophiline gastropods based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Zool. Scripta, 32: 357-366.

Hershler, R. & Longley, G. (1986) Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas. Malacologia, 27, 127-72.

Hershler, R., V. Ratcliffe, H.-P. Liu, B. Lang, and C. Hay.  2014.  Taxonomic revision of the Pyrgulopsis gilae (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae) species complex, with descriptions of two new species from the Gila River basin, New Mexico.  ZooKeys  429:69-85.

Hershler, R. and D.W. Sada (1987) Springsnails (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) of Ash Meadows, Amargosa Basin, California-Nevada. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:776-843.

Hershler, R., and F.G. Thompson (1987) North American Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissoacea): Redescription and systematic relationships of Tryonia Stimpson, 1865 and Pyrgulopsis Call and Pilsbry, 1886. Nautilus 101:25-32.

Liu, H.-P., and R. Hershler. (2005)  Molecular systematics and radiation of western North American nymphophiline gastropods.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2):284-298.

Liu, H-P, R. Hershler, & P. Hovingh (2018) Molecular evidence enables further resolution of the western North American Pyrgulopsis kolobensis complex (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae).  Journal of Molluscan Studies 84(1):103-107.

Thompson, F.G. (1969) Some hydrobiid snails from Georgia and Florida. Quart. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 32, 241-65

Thompson, F.G. (1977) The hydrobiid snail genus Marstonia. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, 21, 113-58

Thompson, F.G. (2001) A new hydrobiid snail from a saline spring in southern Alabama (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rissooidea). American Malacological Bulletin 16:41-46.

Thompson, F. G. & Hershler, R. (2002)  Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker 1926 resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, new genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae)  Veliger 45:  269-271.

Watson, C. (2000) Results of a survey for selected species of Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda) in Georgia and Florida.  In Freshwater Mollusk Symposia Proceedings, Part II, eds. Tankersley, Warmolts, Watters, Armitage, Johnson & Butler, pp. 233 - 244.  Columbus: Ohio Biological Survey. 

        Lithoglyphidae

Hershler, R. & Frest, T. (1996) A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Fluminicola (Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 583, 1-41.

Hershler, R., & H-P. Liu (2012) Molecular phylogeny of the western North American pebblesnails, genus Fluminicola (Rissooidea: Lithoglyphidae), with description of a new species.  Journal of Molluscan Studies 78(4):321-329.

Hershler, R., Liu, H-P., Frest, T. J., & Johannes, E. J. (2007)  Extensive diversification of pebblesnails (Lithoglyphidae: Fluminicola) in the upper Sacramento River basin, northwestern USA.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 149: 371-422.

Thompson, F.G. (1984) North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae. Malacologia, 25, 109-41.

Ampullariidae

Hayes, K. A. Cowie R.H., Thiengo S.C., Strong E.E. (2012) Comparing apples with apples: clarifying the identities of two highly invasive Neotropical Ampullariidae (Caenogastropoda). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 166: 723-753.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [25July13].

Hayes, K. A., S. Thiengo, and R. Cowie (2009) A global phylogeny of apple snails: Gondwanan origin, generic relationships and the influence of outgroup choice (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 98: 61-76. 

 

Viviparidae

Clench, W. (1962) A catalogue of the Viviparidae of North America with notes on the distribution of Viviparus georgianus, Lea. Occas. Pprs. on Mollusks, Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 2, 261-87

Clench, W. & Fuller, S. (1965) The genus Viviparus in North America. Occas. Pprs. on Mollusks, Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 2, 385-412

Clench, W. & Turner, R. (1955) The North American genus Lioplax in the family Viviparidae. Occas. Pprs. on Mollusks, Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 2, 1-20.

Jokinen, E.H. (1982) Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) in North America, review and update. Nautilus 96:89-95.

Smith, D. G. (2000)  Notes on the taxonomy of introduced Bellamya (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) species in northeastern North America.  Nautilus 114: 31 - 37.

Lymnaeidae

Correa, A. C., J. S. Escobar, P. Durand, F. Renaud, P. David, P. Jarne, J-P Pointier, & S. Hurtrez-Bousses (2010)  Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [4June12]

Baker, F. (1911) The Lymnaeidae of North and Middle America, Recent and Fossil. Special Publication, no. 3. Chicago: Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [20Nov06]

Hubendick, B. (1951) Recent Lymnaeidae.  Their variation, morphology, taxonomy, nomenclature, and distribution. Kungl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 3, 1-223.  For a review, the the FWGNA blog of [28Dec06].
 

Ancylidae

Basch, P. (1963) A review of the recent freshwater limpet snails of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 129, 399-461

Hubendick, B. (1964) Studies on Ancylidae, The subgroups.  Meddelanden Fran Goteborgs Musei Zoologiska Avendelining, 137.  (Goteborgs Kungl. Vetenskaps-Och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar.  Sjatte Foljden. Ser. B.) 9, 1-72.

Walther, A. C., J. B. Burch and D. O'Foighil (2010)  Molecular phylogenetic revision of the freshwatear limpet genus Ferrissia (Planorbidae: Ancylinae) in North America yields two species: Ferrissia (Ferrissia) rivularis and Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) fragilis.  Malacologia 53: 25 - 45.  For a review, see my blog post of [8Sept10].

Walther, A. C., T. Lee, J.B. Burch,  and D. O'Foighil. (2006)  E pluribus unum: A phylogenetic and phylogeographic reassessment of Laevapex (Pulmonata: Ancylidae), a North American genus of freshwater limpets.  Molec. Phyl. Evol. 40: 501-516.  For a review, see my blog post of [20July07].

Acroloxidae

Hossack, B.R., and R.L. Newell (2013) New distribution record for the rare limpet Acroloxus coloradensis (Henderson, 1930) (Gastropoda: Acroloxidae) from Montana. Nautilus 127:41-42.

Paul, A.J., and H.F. Cliford (1991) Acroloxus coloradensis (Henderson), a rare North American freshwater limpet. Nautilus 105:173-174.


Physidae

Dillon, R. T., J. D. Robinson, and A. R. Wethington (2007)  Empirical estimates of reproductive isolation between the freshwater pulmonates Physa acuta, P. pomilia, and P. hendersoni.  Malacologia 49: 283-292. [pdf]

Dillon, R. T., and A. R. Wethington  (2006)  The Michigan Physidae revisited: A population genetic study.  Malacologia 48: 133 – 142. [pdf]

Taylor, D. (2003)  Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); Biogeography, Classification, Morphology.  Revista de Biología Tropical 51, Supplement 1: 1-287.

Te, G.A. (1975) Michigan Physidae, with systematic notes on Physella and Physodon (Basommatophora: Pulmonata). Malac. Rev., 8, 7-30.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [6May14].

Te, G.A. (1978) The systematics of the family Physidae (Basommatophora:Pulmonata). Ph. D. Dissertation, p. 325. University of Michigan.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [12June14].

Te, G.A. (1979) New classification system for the family Physidae. Arch. Moll., 110, 179-84.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [12June14].

Wethington, A. R. (2004) Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of reproductive isolaton in Physa (Pulmonata: Physidae).  Ph. D. Dissertation, 119 pp.  University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Wethington, A. R. (2004)  Family Physidae.  A supplement to the workbook accompanying the FMCS Freshwater Identification Workshop, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. [pdf]

Wethington, A. R. & C. Lydeard (2007)  A molecular phylogeny of Physidae (Gastropoda: Basommatophora) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.  J. Molluscan Stud. 73: 241 - 257.  For a review, see FWGNA blog of [12Oct07].

Wethington, A. R., J. Wise, and R. T. Dillon (2009)  Genetic and morphological characterization of the Physidae of South Carolina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Basommatophora) with description of a new species.  The Nautilus 123: 282 - 292. [pdf]

Wu, S-K. (2004-2005)  Nebraska Physidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygrophila). Malacological Review 37/38:185-196.

Wu, S-K. and D.E. Beetle (1995) Wyoming Physidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygrophila). Malacological Review 28:81-95.

Wu, S-K. and H-P. Liu. (2000-2001)  Kansas Physidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygrophila). Malacological Review 33/34:69-79.

Planorbidae

Baker, F.C. (1945) The Molluscan Family Planorbidae. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [11Apr08].

Baker, H. (1946) Index to F.C. Baker's "The Molluscan Family Planorbidae." Nautilus, 59, 127-41.

Hubendick, B. (1955)  Phylogeny in the Planorbidae.  Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 28, 453 - 542. For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [11Apr08].

Pilsbry, H. (1934) Review of the Planorbidae of Florida, with notes on other members of the family. Proc. Acad. Natl. Sci. Phila., 86, 29-66



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