“Faunistically and ecologically speaking, the Gulf is a lot more than an appendix of the big ocean”

— Peter Castro

Mollusks of Kuwait

Bivalvia

  • Saccostrea cuccullata

    (Bivalvia: Ostreidae​)

  • Brachidontes pharaonis

    (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

  • Neotrapezium sublaevigatum

    (Bivalvia: Trapeziidae)

  • Marcia cordata

    (Bivalvia: Veneridae​)

  • Circenita callipyga

    (Bivalvia: Veneridae​)

  • Pinctada imbricata radiata

    (Bivalvia: Margaritidae​)

Gastropoda

  • Bulla ampulla

    (Gastropoda: Bullidae)

  • Tylothais savignyi

    (Gastropoda: Muricidae)

  • Echinolittorina arabica

    (Gastropoda​)

  • Hexaplex rileyi 

    (Gastropoda: Muricidae)

  • Lunella coronata

    (Gastropoda: Turbinidae​)

  • Clypeomorus bifasciata

    (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae)

  • Pirenella arabica

    (Gastropoda: Potamididae)

  • Conomurex persicus

    (Gastropoda: Strombidae)

  • Priotrochus obscurus

    (Gastropoda: Trochidae​)

  • Siphonaria belcheri

    (Gastropoda: Siphonariidae​)

  • Diodora funiculata

    (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae)

  • Diodora ruppellii

    (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae)

  • Dendrodoris nigra

    (Gastropoda: Dendrodorididae​)

  • (Gastropoda: Lamellariidae​)

  • Peronia peronii

    (Gastropoda: ​Onchidiidae)

Cephalopoda

  • Sepia eggs

    (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae​)

Please contact me if you have the correct identification for the things that I have missed or got wrong!