Land Snail References US & Canada

Bequaert, J.C., and W.B. Miller. 1973. The mollusks of the arid Southwest; with an Arizona check list. University of Arizona Press, Tuscon, Arizona. xvi + 271 pp. 
Binney, W. G. 1885. A Manual of American Land Shells. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 351 pp.
Burch, J.B. 1962. How to Know the Eastern Land Snails. Wm. C. Brown Company
Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa. 214 pp. [note: present but reference incomplete]
Burch, J.B. and T. Pearce. 1990. Chapter 9: Terrestrial gastropods. Pages
201-309 in D.L. Dindal (ed.) Soil Biology Guide. John Wiley and Sons, New
York. 1349 pp.
Binney, W. G. 1892. Fourth Supplement to Terrestrial Molluscs. —Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 22:163.
Binney, W. G. & T. Bland. 1869. Land and fresh water shells of North America. Part 1. Pulmonata Geophila. —Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 194:13-21.
Chichester, L.F. and L.L. Getz. 1973. The terrestrial slugs of northeastern North America. Sterkiana, 51: 11-42.
Cowie, R.H., N.L. Evenhuis, C.C. Christensen. 1995. Catalog of the Native Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. Backhuys Publishers:
Leiden, the Netherlands. 248 pp.
Dirrigl, F.J., Jr. and A.E. Bogan. 1996. Revised checklist of the terrestrial gastropods of New Jersey (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Walkerana,
8(20): 127-138.
Forsyth, Robert G. 2004. Land Snails of British Columbia. Royal BC Museum Handbook. Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum. 188 pp. + 8 colour pp. Get a copy! 
Frest, T., Deixis Consultants, Seattle, Washington. [Numerous unpublished reports for the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain region].
Hubricht, L. 1985. The distribution of the native land molluscs of the eastern United States. —Fieldiana Zoology 24, 191 pp.
J.Jass. 2004. Distribution of Gastropods in Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology N. 99. 

Kelley, R., S. Dowlan, N. Duncan, and T. Burke. 1999. Field guide to survey and manage terrestrial mollusk species from the northwest forest plan. U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Eugene, Oregon. 114 pp.
Lepitzki, D.A.W. 2001. Gastropods. 2000 preliminary status ranks for Alberta. Unpublished report prepared for Alberta Sustainable Resource
Development, Fish and Wildlife Divsion, Edmonton, Alberta. 126 pp.
Martin, S.M. 2000. Terrestrial snails and slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Maine. Northeastern Naturalist, 7(1): 33-88.
Oliver, G.V. and W.R. Bosworth, III. 1999. Rare, imperiled, and recently extinct or extirpated mollusks of Utah. A literature review. Publication
99-29 prepared for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission and U.S. Department of the Interior, Salt Lake City, Utah. 232
pp.
Pearce, T.A. 1994. Terrestrial gastropods of Mackinac Island, Michigan, U.S.A. Walkerana, 7: 47-53.
Pilsbry, H.A. 1939-1948. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 3( parts
1-4): 2215 pp. How to order from the Academy. 
Pilsbry, H. A. & J. H. Ferriss. 1906. Mollusca of the southwestern states, II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 58:123-175. 
Turgeon, et. al., 1998, ‘Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Molluscs, 2nd edition’, American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 

US States

Alabama

Walker, Bryant, 1928. The terrestrial shell-bearing Mollusca of Alabama. Michigan University Museum of Zoology, Miscellaneous Publication No. 18, 180 pp.

California

Roth, B.& P.S. Sadeghian. 2003. Checklist of the land snails and slugs of California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Contributions in Science (3). 81 pp. How can I get a copy?

Channel Islands and California Desert Snail Fauna

Kansas

Leonard, Arthur B. Handbook of Gastropods in Kansas. With the technical assistance of E.J. Roscoe and others. Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publication no. 20. Lawrence: University of Kansas, Department of Zoology, 1959. 224 pp., 87 figs., 11 plates.

New Mexico

Metcalf, A.L & R. A. Smartt. 1997. Land Snails of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 10. 145 pp. How can I get a copy?

Maryland

Grimm, F .W. 1971. Annotated checklist of the land snails of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Sterkiana 41:51-57.

Maine

Martin, S.M. 2000. Terrestrial snails and slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of
Maine. Northeastern Naturalist, 7(1): 33-88.

Ohio

Taft, C. 1961. Shell Bearing Land Snails of Ohio.Ohio Biological Survey.

Tennessee

Bickel, D. 1968. Checklist of the mollusca of Tennessee. Sterkiana, 31:15-39.
Bogan, A.A., C.C. Coney, and W.A. Tarpey. 1982. Distribution of the Polygyridae (Mollusca: Pulmonata) of Tennessee. J. Tenn. Acad. Sci, 57:16-22.
Coney, C.C. W.A. Tarpey, J.C. Warden, and J.W Nagel. Ecological studies of land snails in the Hiwassee River Basin of Tennessee, USA. Malacological Review, 15:69-106
Hubricht, L. The land snails from the caves of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, Nat. Speleol. Soc. Bull, 26: 33-36.
Hubricht, L. The land snails of Tennessee. Sterkiana, 49:11-17.
Lutz, L. 1950. A list of the land Mollusca of Claiborne County, Tennessee with description of a new subspecies of Triodopsis. Nautilus, 63:99-105, 121-123.

Texas

Cheatum, E. P. and R. W. Fullington. 
1971a. The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas.Part One: The Recent and Pleistocene Members of the Gastropod Family Polygyridae in Texas. Bulletin 1. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas. 
1971b. The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas: Supplement:Keys to the Families of the Recent Land and Fresh-Water Snails of Texas. Bulletin 1. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas. 
1973. The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas. Part Two: The Recent and Pleistocene Members of the Pupilidae and Urocoptidae (Gastropoda) in Texas. Bulletin 1. Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas. 

Fullington, R. W., and W. L. Pratt. 1974. The Aquatic and Land Mollusca of Texas.Part Three:The Helicinidae, Carychiidae, Achatinidae, Bradybaenidae, Bulimidae, Cionellidae, Haplotrematidae, Helicidae, Oreohelicidae, Spiraxidae, Streptaxidae, Strobilopsidae, Thysanophoridae,,Valloniidae (Gastropoda) in Texas.Bulletin 1.Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas.

West Virginia

MacMillan, G. K. 1949. The land snails of West Virginia. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 31:89-238.

Wisconsin

J.Jass. 2004. Distribution of Gastropods in Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology N. 99. 

Utah

Chamberlin, R.V. & D.T. Jones. 1929. A descriptive catalog of the mollusca of Utah. Bulletin of the University of Utah. 19(4). 203 pp.

 

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