Table 2. Taxonomic review of the pond snails (Lymnaeidae) from East Asia and Alaska.
Genus Species Type locality Distribution
Subfamily Lymnaeinae Rafinesque, 1815
Tribe Lymnaeinae incertae sedis
aNon-native species.
Dallirhytis Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1989 stat. rev. Dallirhytis atkaensis (Dall, 1884) USA: Aleutian Islands (Dall 1884) Russia: Chukchi Peninsula; Canada; and USA: Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Galba Schrank, 1803 Galba pacifica Japan: Hokkaido Prefecture, Biei Town, the Ishikari River system, a ditch near the Rubeshibe Stream, 43.520331°N, 142.372452°E Japan: Hokkaido; Russia: Sakhalin Island and Kurile Archipelago, and Kamchatka
Galba humilis a (Say, 1822) USA: South Carolina, without a precise locality (Say 1822) North America, including the USA, Canada, and Mexico; Japan: Honshu (non-native) (Saito 2022)
Galba schirazensis a (Küster, 1862) ‘Schiras in Persien’ (Iran: Schiras, approximately 29.5971°N, 52.5834°E) (Küster 1862) Japan: Hokkaido (non-native); Iran, Egypt, Reunion, Spain, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru (Lounnas et al. 2018, Ohari et al. 2020)
Walhiana Servain, 1882 = Walterlymnaea Starobogatov & Budnikova, 1976 syn. nov. Walhiana catascopium (Say, 1817) comb. nov. ‘The Delaware river and many other waters of the United States’ (Say 1817b) Russia: Kamchatka; Canada; USA (including Alaska); and Greenland
Walhiana arctica (Lea, 1864) comb. nov. Canada: Ontario, Moose River of Hudson’s Bay USA: Alaska; Northern Canada eastwards to Newfoundland (Burch 1989)
Ladislavella B. Dybowski, 1913 Ladislavella liogyra (Westerlund, 1897) ‘Sibirien, Sud-Ussuri-Gebiet, Dorf Griqorjewskoje’ (Russia: southern part of the Ussuri Region, Grigoryevskoye village, approximately 44.16°N, 132.00°E) (Westerlund 1897) Russia: Ussuri River basin, Primorye, and Sakhalin Island
Pseudosuccinea Baker, 1908 Pseudosuccinea columella a (Say, 1817) ‘Stagnant waters and miry places [of North America]’ (Say 1817b) North America; as a non-indigenous species is widely distributed over tropics and subtropics, including Japan
Tribe Lymnaeini Rafinesque, 1815
Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799 Lymnaea sorensis B. Dybowski, 1912 Russia: ‘Lake Baikal, Bolshoy Sor Bay’ (Dybowski 1912) Widespread throughout North Asia: Western Siberia: Tyumen Region; Eastern Siberia: Altai Mountains, Lake Baikal, Yakutia; Mongolia; northern China: Xinjiang, and Kamchatka
Subfamily Amphipepleinae Pini, 1877
Tribe Peregrianini Bolotov, Vinarski & Aksenova, 2023
Kamtschaticana Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1984 Kamtschaticana kamtschatica (Middendorff, 1850) ‘Kamtschatka’ (Middendorff 1850); ‘See Kainytschin, ohnfern Nishne-Kamtschatsk’ (Russia: Kamchatka, a lake near the former Nizhne-Kamchatsk village, approximately 56.3819°N, 161.1570°E) (Middendorff, 1851) Widespread throughout North Asia: Eastern Siberia and Russian Far East from Lake Baikal through the Amur River basin to Kamchatka, Magadan Region, and Chukotka Peninsula; several times mentioned for Alaska
Kamtschaticana nipponica = Radix sp. Ra-c2 Ohari et al., 2020 Japan: Hokkaido Prefecture, Sarabetsu village, the Tokachi River system, Itarataraki Stream, 42.627161°N, 143.265175°E Japan: Hokkaido
Kamtschaticana sp.1 (possible undescribed species) not available Russian Far East: Kamchatka and Sakhalin Island
Tribe Austropepleini Bolotov, Vinarski & Aksenova, 2023
Orientogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 Orientogalba hokkaidoensis Japan: Hokkaido Prefecture, Hokuto City, a ditch near the Hikirichi Stream, 41.842808°N, 140.634441°E Japan: Hokkaido and Honshu
Orientogalba ollula (Gould, 1859) Streams and marshes on Hong Kong Island (Gould 1859) East Asia: Korea, Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu); Central Asia: Uzbekistan; South Asia: Nepal; and China: Tibet and Hong Kong
Tribe Radicini Vinarski, 2013
Radix Montfort, 1810 Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758) Europe (Vinarski and Kantor 2016) Europe (Vinarski and Kantor 2016) Widespread throughout Northern Eurasia, Kurile Archipelago, Sakhalin Island, Japan, Alaska and West Canada (British Columbia)
Radix onychia (Westerlund, 1883 ‘Japan, ad litora lacus Biva’ (Japan: shores of Lake Biwa) (Westerlund 1883) Japan: Honshu (endemic to Lake Biwa)
Radix plicatula (Benson, 1842) = Radix coreana (Martens, 1886) syn. nov.; Type locality: ‘Changjin, Prov. Hamgyöngdo, Korea’ (North Korea: South Hamgyŏng Province, Changjin County) (Martens 1886); ‘Ponds’ (China: Zhoushan Island, approximately 30.0578°N, 122.1381°E) (Vinarski et al. 2020) East Asia: Amur Basin, Korea, and Japan: islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa; Southeast Asia: Vietnam, South China: Yunnan, Taiwan, Hong Kong; Eastern China: Jiangsu, Hebei; Northern
= Radix sp. Ra-03 (Ohari et al., 2020) China: Xinjiang; and Eastern Tibet: Gansu
Probable synonyms:
= Radix japonica (Jay, 1857); Type locality: Simoda (Japan: Honshu, Simoda, approximately 34.6795°N, 138.9453°E) (Jay 1857)
= Radix hamadai Habe, 1968; Type locality: ‘Kobaru, Takeda City, Oita Pref., Kyushu’ (Japan: Kyushu, Ōita Prefecture, Taketa, Kobaru, approximately 32.8738°N, 131.3581°E) (Habe 1968)