BIBLIOGRAPHY

In this page you will find a selected bibliography about land gastropods, organised per area/country of the world. A flag indicates the language in which the book is written. Please note that many of these books may be hard to find and are often pricey.

This list includes texts for the identification and study of terrestrial species that inhabit a specific geographical area. It does not include, instead, sea and freshwater species, generic texts about gastropod biology, snail farming, snail care, children books, etc. At the bottom of the page, however, you will find some external links to less restrictive bibliographies posted on other websites.

This list is updated whenever I find another book suitable to be included. Links to reviews will be included as well when available.

For any comment or if you want to suggest a book not included yet to the list, feel free to use the message form at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

[LAST UPDATE: October 8, 2010]

EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN

Michael Kerney, Robert Andrew Duncan Cameron, Gordon Riley, A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Britain and North-West Europe
Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D., Jungbluth, J.H. Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas {Note: German translation and adaptation of the previous text, expands the number of species considered}
M-P Kerney, R-A-D Cameron, A Bertrand, Guide des escargots et limaces d’Europe {Note: French translation and adaptation of Kerney/Cameron, based on the German translation above, includes even more species}

G. Falkner, E. Obrdlik, Castella & M. C.  D. Speight, Shelled Gastropoda of western Europe
V. Pfleger, Schnecken und Muscheln Europas: Land- und Süßwasserarten

BELGIUM
C. Vilvens & al., Mollusques terrestres et dulcicoles de Belgique

BRITISH ISLES
M. Kerney, Atlas of the land and freshwater molluscs of Britain and Ireland
Wardhaugh, A.A., Land Snails of the British Isles
Ian J. Killeen, The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk

GERMANY
M. L. Zettler & al., Die Land- und Süßwassermollusken Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns

GREECE
Ch. Frank, Die Molluskenfauna von Rhodos

ISRAEL
J. Heller, The snails of the land of Israel

ITALY
T. Cossignani and V. Cossignani, Atlante delle conchiglie terrestri e dulciacquicole italiane

RUSSIA
R. Egorov, Treasure of Russian shells
A. Sysoev & A. Schileyko, Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries

SPAIN
M. B. Seddon, The landsnails of Madeira
A. Ruiz, A. Cárcaba, A. I. Porras & J. R. Arrébola, Caracoles terrestres de Andalucía {free pdf}
Alberto Martínez-Ortí, Fernando Robles, Moluscos Continentales de la Comunidad Valenciana
Xavier Aixalá i Marti, Els mol.luscs de les terres de ponent
José Castillejo, Babosas del Noroeste Ibérico
José Castillejo, Guía de las babosas ibéricas

K.-H. Beckmann, Die Land- und Süßwasserschnecken der Balearischen Inseln

SWEDEN
H. Waldén, Svensk landmolluskatlas

SWITZERLAND
H. Turner et al., Atlas der Mollusken der Schweiz und Liechtensteins

TURKEY
H. Schütt, Die türkischen Landschnecken
(also available in English as: Turkish Land Snails )

AFRICA, MIDDLE-EAST, ASIA & OCEANIA

Herbert, D. & Kilburn, D., Field Guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa
E. Neubert, Pomatiidae of Arabia, Socotra and Northeast Africa
O. L. Griffiths & V. F. B. Florens, Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands
J. Gerlach, Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands
S. C. Mitra, A. Dey & Ramakrishna, Pictorial handbook: Indian land snails
L. Yen-Chen & C. Wen-Deron, Landsnails [of Taiwan]
André G.J. Delsaerdt, Land Snails on the Solomon Islands

AMERICAS

NORTH-AMERICA
H. T. Close, The Liguus tree snails of South Florida
B. Roth & P. S. Sadeghian, Checklist of the land snails and slugs of California
A. G. Guillén, Cuba – The Landshells Paradise
José M. Fernandez Milera, Polymita – Forma y Color Integrados a la Naturaleza
José Espinosa & Jesús Ortega with photographs by Julio Larramendi, Moluscos Terrestres de Cuba
R. G. Forsyth, Land snails of British Columbia

SOUTH-AMERICA
L. R. L. Simone, Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil
D. Massemin, D. Lamy, J.-P. Pointier & O. Gargominy, Coquillages et escargots de Guayane

OTHER

T.Abbot, P.Dance, Compendium of landshells
Brian Parkinson with Jens Hemmen and Klaus Groh, Tropical Landshells of the World

External links:
Literature on Molluscs (source: Weichtiere.at)
Literatur zum Thema “Weichtiere” (source: Weichtiere.at)
Snail/Slug Books & Merchandise (source: Petsnails.co.uk)
Bibliographie (source: Gireaud.net)
ConchBooks – publishing house, bookshop and antiquarian [various languages]
Libri (source: Malacologia.it) &
Bibliografia sui molluschi terrestri e d’acqua dolce (source: Naturamediterraneo.com)
Bibliografía (source: Malacologia.ES)