There are hundreds of species of molluscs living in the wild in Argentina.
There are a total of ??? species of gastropods, which breaks down to 101[1][2] species of freshwater gastropods, and ??? species of land gastropods in ?? genera, plus 65 species of bivalves living in the wild.[1]
There are ?? non-indigenous species of gastropods (4[2] freshwater and ?? land species: ?? snails and ?? slugs) and ? species of bivalves in the wild in Argentina. This is a total of ? freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs.
Potamolithus is the largest genus (with highest species richness) of recent freshwater snails in Argentina.[1]
There are 10 families of freshwater gastropods in Argentina.[2] There are 40 species of freshwater gastropods endemic to Argentina.[2] There are about 45 endangered freshwater gastropods in Argentina.[2]
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^(in Spanish)Roca J. A. (ed.), Döring A., Berg C., Holmberg E. L. (1881) Informe oficial de la Co (Patagonia) realizada en los meses de Abril, Mayo y Junio de 1879, bajo. Buenos Aires, scan (chapter Molluscos: pp. 61–75.
^Pizá J., Ghezzi N. S. & Cazzaniga N. J. (2006). "A rare endemic land-snail from Argentina: Plagiodontes rocae Doering 1881 (Gastropoda: Orthalicidae: Odontostominae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology135(1): 91–99. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/091-099.
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Holmberg E. L. (1912). "Moluscos Argentinos en parte nuevos, coleccionados por Franco Pastore". Physis1: 20–22.
(in Spanish) Miquel S. E. & Aguirre M. L. (2011). "Taxonomía de los gastrópodos terrestres del Cuartenario de Argentina". [Taxonomy of terrestrial gastropods from the Quaternary of Argentina.] Revista Española de Paleontología26(2): 101–133. PDF.
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