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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A
MOLLUSC SURVEY OF HANNAN WUHU
WETLAND NATURE RESERVE Fig. 1. Wuhu Lake showing its proximity to the outskirts of the
By Zhe-Yu Chen city of Wuhan and to the Yangtse River.

During 2020, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Gardening and

Forestry entrusted Hubei Broad Nature Technology Service
Co., Ltd. to carry out a baseline survey of species diversity of
Wetland Nature Reserves in Wuhan. As part of this effort, the
author participated in the survey of the mollusc component of
the benthic fauna in the Hannan Wuhu Wetland Nature
Reserve in late 2020. This article reports the results of this
survey. All the voucher specimens were deposited in the
Broad Nature Biodiversity Museum. Wuhu Wetland is located
in the southwest of Wuhan City, about 60 km from the city
centre, and covers a wetland area of 3,293 km2 (Fig. 1). Wuhu
wetland is close to the Yangtze River and connects with it in
flood seasons. Winter is the dry season for the wetland, and
large areas of dried mud banks are exposed, on which many
empty mollusc shells are found (Fig. 2), and on which this
survey was based.
The survey recorded 35 species representing13 families of
molluscs in the Wuhu Wetland (Table 1). Among them, there
were 19 species of Bivalvia, representing four families and 15
genera, and 16 species of Gastropoda representing nine
families and 13 genera. The survey demonstrated that mussel
diversity in Wuhu Wetland is high. Compared with the
number of mussel species in China, estimated by Bogatov &
Prozorova (2017) as about 170, the mussel fauna of Wuhu
Wetland includes representatives of almost 10% of the total. Fig. 2. Wuhu Lake during the dry season. A, exposed mud banks;
B, empty bivalve shells on the exposed mud banks.
Therefore, establishment of this wetland reserve is significant
for the survival of mussel diversity in China. Also worth observed. This suggests that the reserve needs to regularly
noting is that a large number of Oncomelania hupensis were monitor whether Schistosoma japonicum, the cause of

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Table 1. Check-list of molluscs of Wuhu Lake.

Bithyniidae
Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld, 1864)
Parafossarulus manchouricus (Bourguignat, 1860)
Parafossarulus sinensis (Möllendorff (1888)
Gabbia longicornis (Benson, 1842)
Lymnaeidae
Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Planorbidae
Helicorbis cantori (Benson, 1850)
Choanomphalus [as “Chanomphalus] heudiana Yen, 1937
Pomatiopsidae
Oncomelania hupensis Gredler, 1881
Semisulcospiridae
Semisulcospira ningpoensis (Lea, 1857)
Viviparidae
Cipangopaludina catayensis (Heude, 1890)
Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray In Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Sinotaia quadrata (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
Ampullariidae
Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822)
Succineidae
Succinea arundinetorum Heude, 1882
Camaenidae
Acusta ravida (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1821)
Corbiculidae
Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774)
Mytilidae
Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857)
Pharidae
Novaculina chinensis Liu & Zhang, 1979
Unionidae
Aculamprotula scripta (Heude, 1875)
Aculamprotula tientsinensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)
Aculamprotula zonata (Heude, 1883)
Acuticosta chinensis (Lea, 1868)
Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877)
Arconaia lanceolata (Lea, 1856)
Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)
Cuneopsis heudei (Heude, 1874)
Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877)
Lamprotula elongata Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1980
Lanceolaria grayii (Gray, 1833)
Lanceolaria gladiola (Heude, 1877)
Nodularia douglasiae (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)
Sinohyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852)
Sinosolenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877)

schistosomiasis, is present or absent. Monitoring after floods

is particularly important, as this could affect the livelihood of
people in the large cities downstream.
Bogatov, V.V. & Prozorova, L.A. 2017. Taxonomy and diversity of
freshwater bivalve mollusks (Bivalvia) of China (based on analysis
of the catalog by He and Zhuang, 2013). Biology Bulletin 44(8):
922-940.
Zhe-Yu Chen, Hubei Broad Nature Technology Service Co., Ltd. and
Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430023, Hubei, P. R. China.
chenzheyu1998@163.com

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