List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey
According to Gümüş et al. (2009),[3] the Turkish malacofauna of land gastropods currently comprises 730 valid species and subspecies of terrestrial snails, belonging to 36 families.
Another accretion in taxa numbers may be caused by the resolution of cryptic species clusters with the help of DNA sequencing methods, the Barcoding Project, and other related activities.
[3] The first species from the Turkish terrestrial malacofauna were described by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756–1814), who, amongst others, collected natural history objects in the Middle East.
Their collections went to the most prolific malacologists interested in the area like Jules René Bourguignat, Jean de Charpentier, Heinrich Carl Küster, Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson, Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer and Emil Adolf Rossmässler.
In the second half of the 19th century, the famous German malacologists Oskar Boettger and Wilhelm Kobelt from the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt intensified the malacological research in Turkey, with contributions by Gottfried Nägele, Otto von Retowski and Carl Agardh Westerlund.
After Kobelt’s death in 1916, the "Golden Age" of malacology was finished except for some contributions by Paul Hesse, Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm and Otto W. von Rosen.
[3] Neritidae Viviparidae Thiaridae Melanopsidae Bithyniidae Hydrobiidae Lithoglyphidae Bythinellidae Assimineidae Valvatidae (All species above this line are freshwater "Prosobranchia".)
Cochliopidae Physidae Planorbidae Lymnaeidae Ellobiidae Ellobiidae Truncatellidae Succineidae Pyramidulidae Clausiliidae Ferussaciidae Achatinidae Pupillidae Lauriidae Orculidae Chondrinidae Pleurodiscidae Truncatellinidae Valloniidae Enidae Punctidae Arionidae Oxychilidae Pristilomatidae Zonitidae Trigonochlamydidae Milacidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae Helicodontidae Geomitridae Hygromiidae Helicidae Trissexodontidae Unionidae Sphaeriidae Dreissenidae Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries: This articles incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from reference.
