References

Land Snails and Slugs

• ​Baker, F.C. 1939. Fieldbook of Illinois Land Snails. Natural History Survey Division, State of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois. (used for comparison of Western and Eastern Whitelips)

• Burch, J.B. 1962. How to Know the Eastern Land Snails. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa. 214 pp. An online pdf is available to see.

• Dourson, D.C. 2010. Kentucky’s Land Snails and their Ecological Communities. Goatslug Publications, Bakersville, NC. 298 pp.

• Dourson, D.C. 2015. Land snails of West Virginia.  Goatslug Publications, Bakersville, NC. 412 pp.

• Hotopp, K.P., T.A. Pearce, J.C. Nekola, J. Slapcinsky, D.C. Dourson, M. Winslow, G. Kimber, and B. Watson. 2013. Land Snails and Slugs of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. Online Resource: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/index.html. (Note: a  very good source for descriptions and images of many snails found in Indiana. Their Pennsylvania and Virginia datasets work pretty well.)

• Hubricht, L. 1958. New species of land snails from the eastern United States. Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science, 19(3-4): 70-76. (used for Stenotrema angellum)

• ​​Hubricht, L. 1985. The distributions of the native land mollusks of the eastern United States. Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, No. 24: 1-191.

• NatureServe. 2020-2021. NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/. (Accessed at various times. A good source for distributions and conservation status.).

• Nekola, J.C. and B.F. Coles. 2010. Pupillid land snails of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Malacological Society. 28:1-29. (Excellent source for Gastrocopa, Pupillids, and Vertigo.)

• Oesch, R.D., L.E. Watrous, and M. C. Barnhart. 2013. Land Snails and Slugs of Missouri. Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, Missouri. (The link opens a pdf of the publication. This is a good supplementary source of descriptions and images.)

• Thomas, A.K., R.J. Mc Donnell, T.D. Paine, and J.D. Harwood. 2010. A Field Guide to the Slugs of Kentucky. SR-103. Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Lexington, KY. pp 36. (The link opens a pdf of the publication. This covers invasive species including the slug Deroceras laeve, which is considered both native and exotic to North America, but leaves out the native Philomycids.)

Aquatic Snails

• ​Burch, J.B. 1982. North American Freshwater Snails. Walkerana. 1(4):217-263.

• Burch, J.B. 1982. Freshwater Snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of North America. EPA-600/3-82-026. 294 pp.

• Dillon, R.T., Jr. et al. 2019.  The Freshwater Gastropods of North America. (includes, in the regional section, The Freshwater Gastropods of the Ohio).

• Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society. Unknown year. Freshwater Snails.

• Johnson, P.D., A.E. Bogan, K.M. Brown, N.M. Burkhead, J.R. Cordeiro, J.T. Garner, P.D. Hartfield, D.A.W. Lepitzki, G.L. Mackie, E.Pip, T.A. Tarpley, J.S. Tiemann, N.V. Whelan & E.E. Strong. 2013. Conservation Status of Freshwater Gastropods of Canada and the United States, Fisheries, 38:6, 247-282, DOI: 10.1080/03632415.2013.785396

• Ohio Division of Wildlife. Freshwater Snails of Ohio Field Guide. 51 pp. (The link opens a pdf of the publication. A very good guide that covers the major groups found in Indiana and many of the species).

• Perez, K. and G. Sandland. Unknown year. Key to Wisconsin Freshwater Snails.

• ​Pyron M., J. Beugly, E. Martin, and M. Spielman. 2008. Conservation of the freshwater gastropods of Indiana: Historic and current distributions. Amer. Malac. Bull. 26: 137-151.

Author References

• ​Arruda, J. A. (2018). In Jim Mason (Ed.), Pocket Guide to the Land Snails of Kansas. Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, KS. pp. 69. (the link opens a pdf of the publication)

• Arruda, J. A. (2018). Two new land snail species in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 121(1-2), 98-102.

• Arruda, J. A. (2015). Checklist of the Aquatic Snails of Kansas. Vol. 61(2). Kansas School Naturalist. Division of Biology, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. pp. 16

• Arruda, J. A. (2014). The land snails of a partially reclaimed abandoned coal mine site. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 117(1-2), 15-20.

• Arruda, J. A. (2013). Checklist of the Land Snails of Kansas. Vol. 60(1). Kansas School Naturalist. Division of Biology, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. pp. 16

Snail Stories

• 3,000 snails travel 3,000 miles in an effort to save a species - a re-introduction of an endangered species of snail [posted 6/24/23]

• Snail eating a strawberry - nice close-ups, great view of 4 "tentacles" especially upper two with eyes unfolding [posted 6/23/23]

• Why medieval manuscripts are full of doodles of snail fights - interesting bit of history on "snail doodles" posted 6/23/23]

• Giant African land snail spotted in Florida, forcing quarantine in parts of county - don't mess with exotics [posted 6/23/23]