Bibliography for the Identification of North American Freshwater Snails

Regional Index

Prepared by Rob Dillon for the FWGNA Project


North America Generally (Chronological)

Thorp, J. H., and D. C. Rogers (2016) Keys to Nearctic Fauna.  Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, (Fourth Edition).  Volume II.  Gastropod keys are pp 192 - 208.  For reviews, see FWGNA Blogs [12Apr18] and [10May18].

Pyron, M., and K.M. Brown (2015)  Chapter 18 - Introduction to Mollusca and the Class Gastropoda.  pp. 383-421 in J.H. Thorp and D.C. Rogers (eds.). Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates (Fourth Edition). Ecology and General Biology. Academic Press, Inc.  xxix + 1118 pp.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [12Apr18].

Johnson, P.D., A.E. Bogan, K.M. Brown, N.M. Burkhead, J.R. Cordeiro, J.T. Garner, P.D. Hartfield, D.A.W. Lepitzki, G.L. Mackie, E. Pip, T.A. Tarpley, J.S. Tiemann, N.V. Whelan, and E.E. Strong (2013) Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries 38(6):247-282.  For a review, see FWGNA Blog of  [9Sept13], but first read [19Aug13].

Thorp, J.H., and C. Rogers (2011)  Chapter 9 - Snails: Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda.  pp. 65-82, in Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America. Academic Press; 304 pp.

Brown, K.M., and Charles Lydeard (2009) Mollusca: Gastropoda. In: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, Third Edition. (Thorp & Covich, eds). Elsevier Inc.

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].

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

Smith, D. G. (2001) Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea, Fourth Edition.  New York: John Wiley & Sons. 

Brown, K.M. (2001) Mollusca: Gastropoda. Pages 297-329 in J.H. Thorpe and A.P. Covich (eds.) Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 2nd Edition. Academic Press: San Diego, California.

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

Turgeon, D., and 15 other authors. (1998) Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. Special Publications No. 26. American Fisheries Society.  526 pp.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [5Mar14].

Brown, K. (1991) Gastropoda. In Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, ed. J. Thorp & A. Covich, pp. 285-314. New York: Academic Press.

Pennak, R. (1989) Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States, Third Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Burch, J. (1989) North American Freshwater Snails. Hamburg, MI: Malacological Publications.

Burch, J. (1988) North American freshwater snails: Introduction, systematics, nomenclature, identification, morphology, habitats, distribution. Walkerana, 2(6), 1-80.

Burch, J. (1982) North American freshwater snails: Identification keys, generic synonymy, supplemental notes, glossary, references, index. Walkerana, 4, 1-365.

Burch, J. & Tottenham, J. (1980) North American freshwater snails: Species list, ranges, and illustrations. Walkerana, 3, 1-215

Burch, J. (1979) Genera and subgenera of Recent freshwater gastropods of North America (North of Mexico). Malacological Review, 12, 97-100

Clench, W. (1959) Mollusca. In Fresh Water Biology, 2nd Edition, ed. W. Edmondson, pp. 1117-60. New York: John Wiley & Sons

Henderson, J. (1935) Fossil non-marine Mollusca of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 3, 1-313.

Walker, B. (1918) A Synopsis of the Classification of the Freshwater Mollusca of North America, North of Mexico. Misc. Pubs., no. 6. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [9Nov12]
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Great Lakes / Canadian Atlantic

Baker, F.C. (1902) The Mollusca of the Chicago area.  Part 2, The Gastropoda. Chicago Acad. Sci. Natl. Hist. Survey, 3, 131-410

Baker, F.C. (1906) A catalogue of the Mollusca of Illinois. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 7, 53-136

Baker, F.C. (1919) Fresh Water Mollusca from Colorado and Alberta. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 41, 527-39

Baker, F.C. (1928) Freshwater Mollusca of Wisconsin, Part I, Gastropoda. Bull. Wisc. Geol. Natur. Hist. Survey, vol. 70. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

Baker, F. (1935) Land and freshwater Mollusca from North Star Lake and vicinity, Itasca County, Minnesota. Am. Midl. Natur., 16, 257-74.

Baker, F.C. (1939) Land and freshwater Mollusca from western Ontario. Canadian Journal of Research, Section D 17(4): 87-102.

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

Brooks, S. (1936) The land and freshwater Mollusca of Newfoundland. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 25, 83-108

Brooks, S. & Brooks, B. (1940) Geographical distribution of the Recent Mollusca of Newfoundland. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 28, 53-75

Burch, J. & Y. Jung (1992)  Freshwater snails of the University of Michigan Biological Station area.  Walkerana, 6, 1-218

Clarke, A. (1973) The freshwater molluscs of the Canadian Interior Basin. Malacologia, 13, 1-509

Clarke, A. (1981) The Freshwater Mollusks of Canada. Ottawa: The National Museums of Canada.

Clifford, H.F (1991) Aquatic Invertebrates of Alberta. University of Alberta Press: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 538 pp.

Dawley, C. (1947) Distribution of aquatic mollusks in Minnesota. Amer. Midl. Natur., 38, 671-97.

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

Emerson, W. & Jacobson, M. (1976) Guide to Shells, Land, Freshwater, and Marine, from Nova Scotia to Florida. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Goodrich, C. (1932) The Mollusca of Michigan. Handbook Series, no. 5. Ann Arbor: Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool.

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

Goodrich, C. & van der Schalie, H. (1939) Aquatic mollusks of the upper peninsula of Michigan. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 43, 7-33

Goodrich, C. & van der Schalie, H. (1944) A revision of the Mollusca of Indiana. Am. Midl. Natur., 32, 257-326.

Jass, J.P. 2004.  Distributions of gastropods in Wisconsin.  Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 99:1-28.

Jokinen, E.H.  2005.  Pond molluscs of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Then and now.  American Malacological Bulletin 20(1-2):1-9.

LaRocque, A. (1953) Catalogue of the Recent Mollusca of Canada. Nat. Mus. Can. Bull., 129, 1-406

LaRocque, A. (1959) Checklist of Ohio Pleistocene and living Mollusca. Sterkiana, 1, 23-49

LaRocque, A. (1961a) Checklist of New Brunswick non-marine Mollusca. Sterkiana, 3, 40-2

LaRocque, A. (1961b) Checklist of Newfoundland non-marine Mollusca. Sterkiana, 3, 43-8

LaRocque, A. (1962) Checklist of the non-marine Mollusca of Quebec. Sterkiana, 7, 23-44

LaRocque, A. (1968) Pleistocene mollusca of Ohio. Ohio Geol. Survey Bull., 62, 357-553

Mackie, G., White, D. & Zdeba, T. (1980) A Guide to the Freshwater Mollusks of the Laurentian Great Lakes, with Special Emphasis on the Genus Pisidium. Duluth, MN: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

MacMillan, G.K. (1954) A preliminary survey of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 23(4): 390-408.

Martin, S. M. (1999) Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Maine.  Northeastern Naturalist 6: 39-88.

McKillop, B. (1996) Geographic and environmental distribution of freshwater gastropods in Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba Mus. Man & Nat. Occas. Series, 1, 1-37.

Pip, E. (2000) The decline of freshwater molluscs in southern Manitoba. Canadian Field Naturalist 114:555-560.

Pip, E. (2006) Littoral mollusc communities and water quality in southern Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:3637-3652.

Pyron, M., Beugly, J., Martin, E., & Spielman, M. (2008)  Conseration of the freshwater gastropods of Indiana: Historic and current distributions.  Am. Malac. Bull. 26: 137 - 151.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog post of [23Jan09].

Robertson, I. & Blakeslee, C. (1948) The Mollusca of the Niagra Frontier region. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., 19, 1-191

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].

Vanatta, E.G. (1927) Land and freshwater shells from Newfoundland. The Nautilus 49(4): 112-114.

Winslow, M. (1926) A revised check list of Michigan Mollusca. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 181, 1-28
 

Northern Atlantic

Baker, F.C. (1942) Land and fresh water Mollusca of New Hampshire. American Midland Naturalist 27:74-85

Clench, W. & Russell, H. (1940) Freshwater shells of New Hampshire. Nautilus, 54, 52-3.

Coote, T. W. (2015)  New gastropod records for the Hudson River, New York.  Amer. Malac. Bull. 33: 114 – 117.

Emerson, W. & Jacobson, M. (1976) Guide to Shells, Land, Freshwater, and Marine, from Nova Scotia to Florida. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Evans, R. & Ray, S. (2008)  Checklist of the freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Pennyslvania, USA.  Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 82: 92-97.

Evans, R. & Ray, S. (2010)  Distribution and environmental influences on freshwater gastropods from lotic systems and spring environments in Pennsylvania, USA, with conservation recommendations.  American Malacological Bulletin 28: 135 - 150.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog post of [22June10]. 

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

Harman, W. (1982)  Pictorial keys to the aquatic mollusks of the upper Susquehanna.  Occas. Pprs. Biol. Field Sta. State Univ. New York at Oneonta  9, 1-13.

Harman, W. (1998) The molluscan community of Oneida Lake, New York.  J. Freshw. Ecol. 13: 207 - 211.

Harman, W.N. and C.O. Berg (1970) Fresh-water Mollusca of the Finger Lakes region of New York. The Ohio Journal of Science 70:146-150.

Harman, W. & Berg, C.O. (1971) The freshwater snails of central New York with illustrated keys to the genera and species. Search: Cornell Univ. Ag. Exp. Sta., 1, 1-68.

Jacobson, M. & Emerson, W. (1971) Shells from Cape Cod to Cape May. New York: Dover

Jokinen, E. (1983) The Freshwater Snails of Connecticut. Hartford, Connecticut: State Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey Bull. 109. 83 p

Jokinen, E. (1992) The freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New York State. New York State Museum Bulletin, 482, 1-112

Martin, S. M. (1999) Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Maine.  Northeastern Naturalist 6: 39-88.

Prezant, R.S., and E.J. Chapman. 2004.  Freshwater molluscs of the United States Military Academy drainages (West Point, NY) and comparative regional biodiversity of gastropods.  Northeastern Naturalist 11(3):273-294.

 Smith, D. (1987) Mollusca Mesogastropoda. Keys to the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Massachusetts, No. 2. Westborough: Mass. Div. Water Poll. Control

 Smith, G.  (1995) Keys to the freshwater macroinvertebrates of Massachusetts, Second Edition.  Privately published, available from D.G. Smith, 30 Montague Road, Sunderland, MA  01375

 Strayer, D. (1987) Ecology and zoogeography of the freshwater mollusks of the Hudson River basin. Malac. Rev., 20, 1-68

 Strayer, D. (1990) Freshwater Mollusca. In Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America, ed. B. Peckarsky, P. Fraissinet, M. Penton & D. Conklin, pp. 333-372. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
 

Southern Atlantic

Beetle, D. (1973) A checklist of the land and freshwater mollusks of Virginia. Sterkiana, 49, 21-35.

Burgess, G.H. and R. Franz (1978) Zoogeography of the aquatic fauna of the St. Johns River system with comments on adjacent peninsular faunas. The American Midland Naturalist 100:160-170.

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]

Clench, W.J. and K.J. Boss (1967) Freshwater Mollusca from James River, VA, and a new name for Mudalia of authors. The Nautilus 80:99-102.

Cowie, R.H., and S.C. Thiengo. 2003.  The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ampullariidae : Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog.  Malacologia 45(1):41-100.

Dawley, C. (1965) Checklist of freshwater mollusks of North Carolina. Sterkiana, 19, 35-9

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emerson, W. & Jacobson, M. (1976) Guide to Shells, Land, Freshwater, and Marine, from Nova Scotia to Florida. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

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

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.

Mazyck, W.G. (1914) Catalog of the Mollusca of South Carolina. Charleston Museum Contributions 2:1-39.

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].

Pearce, T. A. & Evans, R. (2008)  Freshwater Mollusca of Plummers Island, Maryland.  Bull. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 20 - 30.

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.

Richards, H. G. (1934) A list of the mollusks of the District of Columbia and vicinity.  Amer. Midl. Natur. 15: 85 - 88.

Stewart, T.W., and R.T. Dillon, Jr. 2004.  Species composition and geographic distribution of Virginia’s freshwater gastropod fauna: A review using historical records.  American Malacological Bulletin 19(1-2):79-91.

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

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

Thompson, F.G. (1999) An identification manual for the freshwater snails of Florida.  Walkerana 10: 1 - 96.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [14Mar17].

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.

 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.

 Wood, D. (1982) Aquatic Snails (Gastropoda) of the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina. Athens, Ga.: Georgia University Research Foundation
 

Eastern Gulf

Bickel, D. (1968) Checklist of the Mollusca of Tennessee. Sterkiana, 31, 15-39

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]

Clench, W. & Turner, R. (1956) Freshwater mollusks of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from the Escambia to the Suwanee River. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, 1, 94-239

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

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.

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

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

Goodrich, C. (1941b) Distribution of the gastropods of the Cahaba River, Alabama. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 428, 1-30

Goodrich, C. (1944b) Certain operculates of the Coosa River. Nautilus, 58, 1-10

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

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.

McGregor, S., Shepard, T., Richardson, T.,  & Fitzpatrick, J. (1999) A survey of the primary tributaries of the Alabama and lower Tombigbee rivers for freshwater mussels, snails, and crayfish.  Geological Survey of Alabama Circular 196: 1 - 29.

Mirarchi, R.E. (2004) Alabama Wildlife. Volume One: A Checklist of Vertebrates and Selected Invertebrates: Aquatic Mollusks, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Mirarchi, R.E., J.T. Garner, M.F. Mettee, and P.E. O'Neil (2004) Alabama Wildlife. Volume Two. Imperiled Aquatic Mollusks and Fishes. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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

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

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

Thompson, F.G. (1984) The Freshwater Snails of Florida, A Manual for Identification. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Thompson, F.G. (1999) An identification manual for the freshwater snails of Florida.  Walkerana 10: 1 - 96.

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

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. & 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
 

Western Gulf

Cheatum, E. P. & Fullington, R. W. (1971) The aquatic and land Mollusca of Texas.  Bulletin 1, Supp: Keys to the families of the recent land and freshwater snails of Texas.  Dallas Mus. of Natur. His. 1, 1-18

Fullington, R. (1982) The recent and fossil freshwater gastropod fauna of Texas. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Recent Benthological Investigations in Texas and Adjacent States, ed. J. Davis, pp. 61-7. Dallas: Dallas Mus. Nat. Hist.

 Henderson, J. (1924) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 13, 65-223

 Henderson, J. (1936a) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Supplement. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 23, 81-145

 Henderson, J. (1939) The mollusca of New Mexico and Arizona. In So Live the Works of Men, ed. D. Brand & F. Harvey, pp. 187-94. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

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

 Murray, H. & Roy, E. (1968) Checklist of fresh-water and land mollusks of Texas. Sterkiana, 30, 25-42

 Neck, R. (1990) Ecological analysis of the living molluscs of the Texas panhandle. Am. Malac. Bull., 8, 9-18

 Strecker, J. (1935) Land and freshwater snails of Texas. Trans. Texas Acad. Sci., 17, 1-50

 Taylor, D. (1987) Fresh-water molluscs from New Mexico and vicinity. Bull. New Mexico Bur. Mines & Mineral Resources, 116, 1-50

 Wu, S.-K. (1989) Colorado Freshwater Mollusks. Natural History Inventory of Colorado, No. 11. Boulder: Univ. Colorado Museum
 

Eastern Mississippi

Ahlstedt, S.A. (1980) The molluscan fauna of the Duck River between Normandy and Columbia dams in central Tennessee. American Malacological Bulletin 1980:60-62.

Ahlstedt, S.A. (1981) The molluscan fauna of Copper Creek (Clinch River system) in southwestern Virginia. American Malacological Bulletin 48:4-6.

Ahlstedt, S.A. (1983) The molluscan fauna of the Elk River in Tennessee and Alabama. American Malacological Bulletin 1:43-50.

Baker, F. (1902) The Mollusca of the Chicago area.  Part 2, The Gastropoda. Chicago Acad. Sci. Natl. Hist. Survey, 3, 131-410

Baker, F. (1906) A catalogue of the Mollusca of Illinois. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 7, 53-136

Baker, F. (1928) Freshwater Mollusca of Wisconsin, Part I, Gastropoda. Bull. Wisc. Geol. Natur. Hist. Survey, No. 70. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

Baker, F. (1935) Land and freshwater Mollusca from North Star Lake and vicinity, Itasca County, Minnesota. Am. Midl. Natur., 16, 257-74

Bickel, D. (1967) Preliminary checklist of Recent and Pleistocene Mollusca of Kentucky. Sterkiana, 28, 7-20

Bickel, D. (1968) Checklist of the Mollusca of Tennessee. Sterkiana, 31, 15-39

Blair, L. & Sickel, J. B. (1986)  A survey of freshwater gastropods in selected habitats of Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky and Tennessee.  Trans. Kentucky Acad. Sci.  47: 6-12.

Branson, B.A. (1987) Keys to the aquatic Gastropoda known from Kentucky. Trans. Kentucky Acad. Sci., 48, 11-9

Branson, B.A. & Batch, D.L. (1971) Annotated distribution records for Kentucky Mollusca. Sterkiana, 43, 1-9.

Branson, B.A. & D.L. Batch (1981) Distributional records for gastropods and sphaeriid clams of the Kentucky and Licking rivers and Tygarts Creek drainages, Kentucky.  Brimleyana 7: 137 – 144.

Branson, B.A. and D.L. Batch (1982) Molluscan distribution records from the Cumberland River, Kentucky. The Veliger 24:351-354.

Branson, B.A. and D.L. Batch (1983) Gastropod and Sphaeriacean clam records for streams west of the Kentucky River drainage, Kentucky. Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science 44:8-12.

Branson, B.A., Batch, D.L. & S.M. Call (1987) Distribution of aquatic snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Kentucky with notes on fingernail clams. Trans. Kentucky Acad. Sci., 48, 62-70.

Cummings, K.S. (1991) The aquatic Mollusca of Illinois. Pages 429-439 in L.M. Page and M.R. Jeffords (eds.). Our Living Heritage: The Biological Resources of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 34:357-477.

Dawley, C. (1947) Distribution of aquatic mollusks in Minnesota. Amer. Midl. Natur., 38, 671-97.

Dexter, R.W. (1956) Comparison of the gastropod fauna in the drainage systems of Champaign County, Illinois. American Midland Naturalist 55(2):363-368.

Dexter, R.W. (1961) Changes in the gastropod populations in the Salt Fork of the Big Vermilion River in Illinois, 1918-1959. Sterkiana 3: 15-18.

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

Dillon, R.T., Jr. and E.F. Benfield. (1982) Distribution of pulmonate snails in the New River of Virginia and North Carolina, U.S.A.: interaction between alkalinity and stream drainage area. Freshwater Biology 12:179-186.

Evans, R. (2012)  Recent monitoring of the freshwater mollusks of Kinniconick Creek, Kentucky, with comments on potential threats.  Walkerana 15: 17 – 26.

Evans, R. & Ray, S. (2008)  Checklist of the freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Pennyslvania, USA.  Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 82: 92-97.

Evans, R. & Ray, S. (2010)  Distribution and environmental influences on freshwater gastropods from lotic systems and spring environments in Pennsylvania, USA, with conservation recommendations.  American Malacological Bulletin 28: 135 - 150.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog post of [22June10]. 

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

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

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Jass, J.P. 2004.  Distributions of gastropods in Wisconsin.  Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 99:1-28.

LaRocque, A. (1959) Checklist of Ohio Pleistocene and living Mollusca. Sterkiana, 1, 23-49

LaRocque, A. (1968) Pleistocene mollusca of Ohio. Ohio Geol. Survey Bull., 62, 357-553

Laursen, J., Averbeck, G., Conboy, G. & Stromberg, B. (1992) Survey of pulmonate snails of central Minnesota. J. Freshw. Ecol., 7, 25-33.

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.

Morrison, J. P. E. (1932) A report on the mollusca of the northeastern Wisconsin Lake district.  Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. 27, 359-396.

Pyron, M., Beugly, J., Martin, E., & Spielman, M. (2008)  Conseration of the freshwater gastropods of Indiana: Historic and current distributions.  Am. Malac. Bull. 26: 137 - 151.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog post of [23Jan09].

Rosewater, J. (1959) Mollusca of the Salt River, Kentucky.  Nautilus 73, 57-63.

Schwartz, F.J. and W.G. Meredith (1962) Mollusks of the Cheat River watershed of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, with comments on present distributions. The Ohio Journal of Science 62:203-207.

van der Schalie, H. (1973) The mollusks of the Duck River drainage in central Tennessee. Sterkiana 52:45-56. 
 

Western Mississippi

Angelo, R., Cringan, M. & Fry, J. (2002) Distributional revisions and new and amended occurrence records for prosobranch snails in Kansas.  Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 105: 246 - 257.

Baker, F. (1919) Fresh Water Mollusca from Colorado and Alberta. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 41, 527-39

Baker, F. (1935) Land and freshwater Mollusca from North Star Lake and vicinity, Itasca County, Minnesota. Am. Midl. Natur., 16, 257-74

Beetle, D. (1961) A checklist of Wyoming Recent Mollusca. Sterkiana, 3, 1-9

Beetle, D. (1989) Checklist of recent Mollusca of Wyoming, USA. Great Basin Natur., 49, 637-45

Branson, B. (1961) Recent Gastropoda of Oklahoma.  Part II. Distribution, ecology and taxonomy of freshwater species, with description of Helisoma travertina sp. nov. Okla. State Univ. Pub., Biol. Stud. Series 6, 58, 1-72

Cvancara, A. (1975) Aquatic malacogeography of North Dakota. Proc. North Dakota Acad. Sci., 27, 68-82

Cvancara, A. (1983) Aquatic Mollusks of North Dakota. Report of Investigation, vol. 78. North Dakota Geol. Survey

Dawley, C. (1947) Distribution of aquatic mollusks in Minnesota. Amer. Midl. Natur., 38, 671-97

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

Gordon, M.E. (1980) Recent Mollusca of Arkansas with annotations to systematics and zoogeography. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 34:58-62.

Gordon, M.E. (1982) Mollusca of the White River, Arkansas and Missouri. Southwestern Naturalist 27:347-352.

Gordon, M.E. (1985) Mollusca of Frog Bayou, Arkansas. The Nautilus 99:6-9.

Gordon, M.E., S.W. Chordas, G.L. Harp, and A.V. Brown (1994) Aquatic Mollusca of the White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, U.S.A. Walkerana 7:1-9.

Harrold, M. N. & R. P. Guralnick (2008)  A Field Guide to the Freshwater Mollusks of Colorado.  Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver. 126 pp.  For a review see the FWGNA blog of [26Nov08].

 Henderson, J. (1924) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 13, 65-223

 Henderson, J. (1936a) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Supplement. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 23, 81-145.

 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., 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.

Hovingh, P. (2004) Intermountain freshwater mollusks, USA (Margaritifera, Anodonta, Gonidea, Valvata, Ferrissia): geography, conservation, and fish management implications. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 2:109-135.

Laursen, J., Averbeck, G., Conboy, G. & Stromberg, B. (1992) Survey of pulmonate snails of central Minnesota. J. Freshw. Ecol., 7, 25-33

Leonard, A. (1959) Handbook of Gastropods in Kansas. Misc. Publ., no. 20. Lawrence: Univ. Kansas Mus. Natl. Hist.

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.

Minton, R. L., White, J. D., Hayes, D. M., Chenoweth, M. S., & Hill, A. M. (2008)  Diversity and distribution of freshwater gastropods in the Bayou Bartholomew drainage, Arkansas, USA.  Amer. Malac. Bull. 26: 171 - 177.

Over, W.H. (1915) The Mollusca of South Dakota. The Nautilus 29:79-81, 90 – 95.

Over, W.H. (1928) Additional records of South Dakota Mollusca. The Nautilus 41:92-93

Sampson, F.A. (1913) A preliminary list of the Mollusca of Missouri (exclusive of the Unionidae). Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis 22:67-108.

Stephen, B. J. (2015)  Species composition of Nebraska’s freshwater gastropod fauna: A review of historical records.  Amer. Malac. Bull. 33: 61 – 71.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [11May15].

Stewart, T.  (2006)   The freshwater gastropods of Iowa (1821-1998): Species composition, geographic distributions, and conservation concerns. Amer. Malac. Bull., 21: 59 - 75.  For a review, see the FWGNA blog of [20Apr06].

Tuthill, S. (1962) A checklist of North Dakota Pleistocene and Recent Mollusca. Sterkiana, 8, 12-8

Tuthill, S. (1963) Corrections and additions to the checklist of North Dakota Pleistocene and Recent Mollusca. Sterkiana, 10, 29-30.

Wheeler, H.E. (1918) The Mollusca of Clark County, Arkansas. The Nautilus 31:109-125.

Winslow, M. (1921) Mollusca of North Dakota. Occas. Pprs. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 98, 1-18.

Wu, S-K. (1989) Colorado Freshwater Mollusks. Natural History Inventory of Colorado, no. 11. Boulder: Univ. Colorado Museum.

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.

Wu, S-K., Oesch, R. & Gordon, M. (1997) Missouri Aquatic Snails. Jefferson City: Missouri Department of Conservation.
 

Pacific

Baker, F.C. (1919) Fresh Water Mollusca from Colorado and Alberta. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 41, 527-39

Baxter, R. (1987) Mollusks of Alaska.  Shells and Sea Life, Bayside, Calif.  163 pp.

Beetle, D. (1961) A checklist of Wyoming Recent Mollusca. Sterkiana, 3, 1-9

Beetle, D. (1989) Checklist of recent Mollusca of Wyoming, USA. Great Basin Natur., 49, 637-45

Bequaert, J. & Miller, W. (1973) The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest, with an Arizona Check List. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Branson, B.A. (1977) Freshwater and terrestrial Mollusca of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. The Veliger 19:310-330.

Chamberlain, R. & Jones, D. (1929) A descriptive catalogue of the Mollusca of Utah. Bull. Univ. Utah, 19, 1-203

Chamberlain, R. & Roscoe, E. (1948) Check list of the Recent Utah Mollusca. Bull. Univ. Utah, 39, 1-16

Clarke, A. (1981) The Freshwater Mollusks of Canada. Ottawa: The National Museums of Canada

Dall, W. (1905) Land and Fresh Water Mollusks of Alaska and Adjoining Regions. Harriman Alaska Expeditions 1899, no. 13. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst.

Frest, T., & Johannes, E. (2000) An annotated checklist of Idaho land and freshwater mollusks.  J. Idaho Acad. Sci., 36(2): 1-51.

Frest, T., Johannes, E., Clark, W., Stephens, G., & Plew, M. (2001)  A bibliography of Idaho freshwater and terrestrial mollusks.  J. Idaho Acad. Sci. 37(2): 9 - 120.

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.

Hanna, G. (1956) Land and freshwater mollusks of the Arctic slope, Alaska. Nautilus, 70, 4-10

Hannibal, H. (1912) A synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary freshwater Mollusca of the California Province, based upon an ontogenetic classification. Proc. Malacol. Soc. Lond., 10, 112-211.

Harrold, M. N. & R. P. Guralnick (2008)  A Field Guide to the Freshwater Mollusks of Colorado.  Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver. 126 pp.  For a review see the FWGNA blog of [26Nov08].

Henderson, J. (1924) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 13, 65-223

Henderson, J. (1929) Non-marine mollusca of Oregon and Washington. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 17, 47-190

Henderson, J. (1936a) Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Supplement. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 23, 81-145

Henderson, J. (1936b) The non-marine Mollusca of Oregon and Washington, Supplement. University of Colorado Studies, Boulder, 23, 251-80

Henderson, J. (1939) The mollusca of New Mexico and Arizona. In So Live the Works of Men, ed. D. Brand & F. Harvey, pp. 187-94. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

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., 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., 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., 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 (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. 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.

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.

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., 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.

Hovingh, P. (2004) Intermountain freshwater mollusks, USA (Margaritifera, Anodonta, Gonidea, Valvata, Ferrissia): geography, conservation, and fish management implications. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 2:109-135.

Keep, J. (1935) West Coast Shells (Revised Edition by J. L. Baily). Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press

LaRocque, A. (1953) Catalogue of the Recent Mollusca of Canada. Nat. Mus. Can. Bull., 129, 1-406.

Lee, J.S.  (2000)  The distribution and ecology of the freshwater molluscs of northern British Columbia.  M.S. Thesis. Prince George: University of Northern British Columbia.

Lee, J.S. (2000) Freshwater mollusks of British Columbia, assessments for all known or potential taxa. Prepared for British Columbia Conservation Data Centre.

Lee, J.S. and J.D. Ackerman. 2000. Freshwater molluscs at risk in British Columbia: three examples of "risk". Pages 67-74 in L. Darling (editors) Proceedings of a Conference on the Biology and Management of Species and Habitats at risk, Kamloops, British Columbia, 15-19 February 1999. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks, Victoria, British Columbia; and University of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia.

Liu, H.-P., & R. Hershler.  2005.  Molecular systematics and radiation of western North American nymphophiline gastropods. Molec. Phyl. Evol., 34: 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.

Lysne, S. (2009) A Guide to Southern Idaho's Freshwater Mollusks. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History: Idaho. 43 pages.

Lysne, S. J. & W. H. Clark (2009) Mollusc survey of the lower Bruneau River, Owyhee County, Idaho, U.S.A.  American Malacological Bulletin 27: 167- 172.

Spamer, E.E. and A.E. Bogan (1993) Mollusca of the Grand Canyon and vicinity, Arizona: new and revised data on diversity and distribution, with notes on Pleistocene-Holocene mollusks of the Grand Canyon. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 144:21-68.

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. 

Taylor, D. (1970) West American Freshwater Mollusca, 1: Bibliography of Pleistocene and Recent Species. Memoir, no. 4. San Diego: San Diego Society of Natural History

Taylor, D. (1981) Freshwater mollusks of California: A distributional checklist. Calif. Fish & Game, 67, 140-63

Taylor, D. (1987) Fresh-water molluscs from New Mexico and vicinity. Bull. New Mexico Bur. Mines & Mieral Resources, 116, 1-50

Wu, S-K. (1989) Colorado Freshwater Mollusks. Natural History Inventory of Colorado, no. 11. Boulder: Univ. Colorado Museum.

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



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