Freshwater mollusks of Transcarpathian (the Tisa River basin) in malacological collections of Ukraine

Abstract

The data on malacological collections stored in four natural depositories of Ukraine is analyzed. These museums are as follows: State Natural History Museum, Lviv; malacological col-lection by Prof. V. Zdun, stored in the of the Benediсt Dybowski Zoological Museum of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Ivan Franko Zhytomyr State University and National Museum of Natural History of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Gastropod and bivalve mollusks collected in the late 20th and in the early 21th century within the Tisa River basin (Transcarpathian) are concerned. Basing on catalogues as well as vouchers studied altogether 51 species is listed (9 of class Gastropoda and 4 of class Bivalvia). Also, the article gives data on the numerical representa-tion of these species in the above mentioned collections. This article represents the first paper on a series of articles devoted to the study of the malacological fauna of the Transcarpathian region.

Keywords

• malacological collection
• freshwater mollusks
• gastropoda
• bivalvia
• transcarpathian
• ukraine