Annotated Species List

Terrestrial gastropods were collected from 39 localities in 2003-2004 as part of this Living Landscapes project, and in 1998, an additional 34 localities were surveyed. These, along with one earlier RBCM and several CMN localities make a total of 77 localities for terrestrial gastropods from the Peace River - northern Rockies region (see Appendix and Figure 3).

Thirteen families², 17 genera and at least 23 species are known from the Peace River - northern Rockies region. All but one species (Deroceras reticulatum) are native. The fauna is rather impoverished compared to the whole of B.C., which-discounting exotic elements-has 20 families, 35 genera and at 67 species in total (Forsyth 2004).

All species except for Oxyloma groenlandicum were previously undocumented from the region. Fieldwork for this Living Landscapes project discovered six species not present in earlier collections (Table 1).

² The families used here are as presented in Land Snails of British Columbia (Forsyth 2004);many North American authors (for example,Turgeon et al.1998)recognize fewer families.

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