List of mollusks of Utah facts for kids

This is a list of mollusks observed in the U.S. state of Utah.

Black gloss

California floater

Helisoma newberryi

Kanab ambersnail

Thickshell pondsnail

New Zealand mud snail

Moss chrysalis snail

• Bear Lake springsnail (Pyrgulopsis pilsbryana)
• Bifid duct pyrg (Pyrgulopsis peculiaris)
• Black Canyon pyrg (Pyrgulopsis plicata)
• Black Gloss (Zonitoides nitidus)
• Brian Head Mountainsnail (Oreohelix parawanensis)
• California floater (Anodonta californiensis)
• Carinate Glenwood pyrg (Pyrgulopsis inopinata)
• Cloaked physa (Physa megalochlamys)
• Coarse Rams-horn (Planorbella binneyi)
• Creeping ancylid (Ferrissia rivularis)
• Crestless column (Pupilla hebes)
• Cross snaggletooth (Gastrocopta quadridens)
• Cross vertigo (Vertigo modesta)
  • V. m. insculpta
  • V. m. corpulenta
  • V. m. parietalis
• Deseret mountainsnail (Oreohelix peripherica)
• Desert springsnail (Pyrgulopsis deserta)
• Desert tryonia (Tryonia porrecta)
• Eureka mountainsnail (Oreohelix eurekensis)
  • O. e. eurekensis
  • O. e. uinta
• Fat-whorled pondsnail (Stagnicola bonnevillensis)
• Fish Lake physa (Physella microstriata)
• Fish Springs marshsnail (Stagnicola pilsbryi)
• Freshwater snail (Fossaria techella)
• Freshwater snail (Fossaria modicella rustica)
• Glass physa (Physa skinneri)
• Glossy valvata (Valvata humeralis californica)
• Great Basin rams-horn (Helisoma newberryi)
• Green River pebblesnail (Fluminicola coloradoensis)
• Hamlin Valley pyrg (Pyrgulopsis hamlinensis)
• Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma kanabense)
• Lamb rams-horn (Planorbella oregonensis)
• Lance aplexa (Aplexa elongata)
• Land snail (Nesovitrea electrina)
• Longitudinal gland pyrg (Pyrgulopsis anguina)
• Lyrate mountainsnail (Oreohelix haydeni)
• Mellow column (Columella columella alticola)
• Mexican coil (Helicodiscus eigenmanni)
• Mill Creek mountainsnail (Oreohelix howardi)
• Minute gem (Hawaiia minuscula minuscula)
• Mitered vertigo (Vertigo concinnula)
• Montane snaggletooth (Gastrocopta pilsbryana)
• Mountain marshsnail (Stagnicola montanensis)
• Mud amnicola (Amnicola limosus limosus)
• New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) - not native and considered invasive
• Ninemile pyrg (Pyrgulopsis nonaria)
• Northwest Bonneville pyrg (Pyrgulopsis variegata)
• Oregon floater (Anodonta oregonensis)
• Otter Creek pyrg (Pyrgulopsis fusca)
• Ovate vertigo (Vertigo ovata)
• Prairie fossaria (Fossaria bulimoides)
• Protean physa (Physella virgata)
  • P. v. virgata
  • P. v. berendti
  • P. v. concolor
• Pygmy fossaria (Fossaria parva)
• Quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) - considered an invasive species, found in Lake Powell and suspected of being in Deer Creek Reservoir
• Red-rimmed melania (Melanoides tuberculata) - not native and considered invasive
• Ribbed dagger (Pupoides hordaceus)
• Rocky Mountain duskysnail (Lyogyrus greggi)
• Rustic ambersnail (Succinea rusticana rusticana)
• Santa Rita ambersnail (Succinea grosvenori grosvenori)
• Sharp sprite (Promenetus exacuous)
• Sierra ambersnail (Catinella stretchiana)
• Slim snaggletooth (Gastrocopta pellucida parvidens)
• Sluice snaggletooth (Gastrocopta ashmuni)
• Smooth Glenwood pyrg (Pyrgulopsis chamberlini)
• Southern Bonneville pyrg (Pyrgulopsis transversa)
• Southern tightcoil (Ogaridiscus subrupicola)
• Striate disc (Discus shimekii)
• Striate gem (Hawaiia minuscula neomexicana)
• Sub-globose snake pyrg (Pyrgulopsis saxatilis)
• Swamp lymnaea (Lymnaea stagnalis appressa)
• Tapered vertigo (Vertigo elatior)
• Texas glyph (Glyphyalinia umbilicata)
• Thickshell pondsnail (Stagnicola utahensis)
• Thin-lip vallonia (Vallonia perspectiva)
• Utah physa (Physella utahensis)
• Utah roundmouth snail (Valvata utahensis)
• Variable vertigo (Vertigo gouldii)
• Western pearlshell (Margaritifera falcata)
• Wet rock physa (Physella zionis)
• White-lip dagger (Pupoides albilabris)
• Widelip pondsnail (Stagnicola traski)
• Widespread column (or Moss chrysalis snail) (Pupilla muscorum)
• Winged floater (Anodonta nuttalliana)
• Yavapai mountainsnail (Oreohelix yavapai)