The non-marine molluscs of Laos are a part of the fauna of Laos (wildlife of Laos). A number of species of molluscs are found in the wild in Laos. Laos is landlocked country, so there are no marine molluscs.
Almost all groups of the land snail fauna in Laos have been less-well studied than those of neighbouring areas. The Lao People's Democratic Republic, until recently encompassed some of the most significant forest areas remaining in Southeast Asia such as mountainous areas in the north and limestone karsts in central area, and some of the most intact biota left in Asia. Those habitat characteristics also harbor diverse of terrestrial molluscan fauna.
Freshwater gastropods Freshwater gastropods in Laos include:
Viviparidae Filopaludina martensi (Frauenfeld, 1864) Filopaludina filosa (Reeve, 1863) Filopaludina sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852)
Pachychilidae Sulcospira housei (I. Lea, 1856)
Pomatiopsidae Neotricula aperta (Temcharoen, 1971)Attwood S. W. & Upatham E. S. (2012). "Observations on Neotricula aperta (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) population densities in Thailand and central Laos: implications for the spread of Mekong schistosomiasis". Parasites & Vectors 5: 126. .
Land gastropods Land gastropods in Laos include:
Cyclophoridae Cyclophorus dilatatus Heude, 1886DO Duc Sang, DO Van Nhuong (2019). "Family Cyclophoridae in Vietnam (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea): the genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810". Ruthenica 29(1): 1-53. Cyclophorus floridus (Pfeiffer, 1854) Cyclophorus speciosus (Philippi, 1847) Scabrina franzhuberi Thach, 2020Junn Kitt Foon & Mohammad Effendi Marzuki (2022). "First record and description of a new Scabrina species (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Peninsular Malaysia". Folia Malacologica 1(30): 23-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.030.003 Scabrina laotica Möllendorff, 1897 Scabrina patera (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
Clausiliidae Garnieria huleschheliae Grego & Szekeres, 2011Jozef Grego & Miklos Szekeres (2011). "New Taxa of Asiatic Clausiliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Visaya 3(2): 4-22. Lindholmiola ahuiri Grego & Szekeres, 2011 Phaedusa pygmaea Grego & Szekeres, 2011
Diapheridae Laoennea carychioides Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz & Maassen in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020 Sinoennea angustistoma Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz & Maassen in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020 Sinoennea euryomphala Inkhavilay & Panha in Inkhavilay, Sutcharit, Tongkerd & Panha, 2016 Sinoennea infantilis Páll-Gergely & Grego in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020 Sinoennea lizae Maassen, 2008 Sinoennea ljudmilena Páll-Gergely in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020Barna Páll-Gergely, Alexander Reischütz, Wim J.M. Maassen, Jozef Grego & András Hunyadi (2020). "New taxa of Diapheridae Panha & Naggs in Sutcharit et al., 2010 from Laos and Thailand (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 1-13. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0001 Sinoennea otostoma Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz & Maassen in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020 Sinoennea variabilis Páll-Gergely & Grego in Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz, Maassen, Grego & Hunyadi, 2020
Streptaxidae - 12 species of Streptaxidae are known from Laos Discartemon discus (Pfeiffer, 1853) Haploptychius blaisei (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905) Haploptychius pellucens (Pfeiffer, 1863)Inkhavilay K., Siriboon T., Sutcharit C., Rowson B. & Panha S. (2016). "The first revision of the carnivorous land snail family Streptaxidae in Laos, with description of three new species (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora, Streptaxidae)". ZooKeys 589: 23-53. . Haploptychius fischeri (Morlet, 1887) Haploptychius porrectus (Pfeiffer, 1863) Indoartemon diodonta Inkhavilay & Panha, 2016 Indoartemon tridens (Möllendorff, 1898) Perrottetia aquilonaria Siriboon & Panha, 2013 Perrottetia daedaleus (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908) Perrottetia dugasti (Morlet, 1892) Perrottetia megadentata Inkhavilay & Panha, 2016 Perrottetia unidentata Inkhavilay & Panha, 2016 Stemmatopsis dolium Do, 2021
Plectopylidae - 3 species are known from Laos Gudeodiscus messageri (Gude, 1909)Páll-Gergely B., Muratov I. V. & Asami T. (2016). "The family Plectopylidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Laos with the description of two new genera and a new species". ZooKeys 592: 1-26. . Hunyadiscus saurini Páll-Gergely, 2016 Naggsia laomontana (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
Freshwater bivalves Freshwater bivalves in Laos include:
See also Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries: List of non-marine molluscs of China List of non-marine molluscs of Vietnam List of non-marine molluscs of Cambodia List of non-marine molluscs of Thailand List of non-marine molluscs of Myanmar
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