List of non-marine molluscs of Dominica

[2] The first records of land gastropods from Dominica were published by the English naturalist Robert John Lechmere Guppy in 1868.

[4] During his visit (a vacation which he turned into an active malacological field trip)[3] Guppy collected a total of 20 species[4] from Dominica.

Bland (1869),[5] A. D. Brown (1881),[6] George French Angas (1884), Edgar Albert Smith (1888, 1888)[7][8] and Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1892).

There is a distinction between the windward (east) and leeward (west) side of the island, according to the parishes in which the localities are situated.

[3] These do not occur, however, on the upper slopes of the higher peaks, but seem to be restricted to the hygrophytic vegetation zone, i.e. the cloud forest.

[3] The area of Freshwater Lake in Morne Trois Pitons National Park is a biodiversity hotspot for land snails.

[3] The systematic list uses scientific names including the authority, and is arranged according to families: Neritidae Planorbidae Thiaridae Physidae Neritiliidae Ampullariidae Helicinidae Neocyclotidae Pomatiidae Veronicellidae Succineidae Subulinidae Streptaxidae Bulimulidae Amphibulimidae Oleacinidae Scolodontidae Haplotrematidae Agriolimacidae Pleurodontidae The following species have been reported from Dominica in the literature, but supporting material has not been found.

These species, recorded due to inaccuracies of provenance of specimens or misidentifications, should be removed from the faunal list of the island: Sphaeriidae This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.