Bibliography on land and freshwater Snails of the northern area of Guatemala

List of snails species that are found in the northern area of Guatemala

Photo taken with the iPhone Xs, by Nicholas Hellmuth in Sabana-cibal del Parque Nacional Naranjo

Rangel & Gamboa,1998 list lots of snails:

Helicina tenuis
Lucidella lirata
Neocyclotus dysoni ambiguum
Pomacea flagellate
Subulina octona
Lamellaxis micra
Eucolodium decollaturr
Epirobia morini
Drymaeus lilacinus var. unicolor
Drymaeus sulfureus
Ortalichus princeps
Euglandina cumingi
Streptostyla nigricans
Leptarionta trigonostoma

But Daniel Dourson Ronald Caldwell, and Judy Dourson list several hundred percent more. Their book is now available, and if you are an archaeologist, ecologist, or biologist (or if you like to learn about the reality of life of creatures out in the rain forests), this book is well worth acquiring.

PDF, Articles, Books on Snails of the northern area of Guatemala

ANDREWS, E. W.
1969
The archaeological use and distribution of Mollusca in the Maya Lowlands. Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University. Publication 34.

Available online:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110408#page/11/mode/1up

AVENDAÑO, Manuel, CARBOT, Gerardo and Edna NARANJO
2010
Moluscos gasterópodos terrestres y dulceacuícolas del área focal Ixcán, Chiapas, México. Lacandonia. Vol. 4, No. 1. Pages 29-36.

Available online:
www.academia.edu/3547906/Moluscos_gaster%C3%B3podos_terrestres_y
_dulceacu%C3%ADcolas_del_%C3%A1rea_Focal_Ixc%C3%A1n_Chiapas

BASCH, Paul F.
1959
Land Mollusca of the Tikal National Park, Guatemala. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, university of Michigan, Number 612, Nov. 5, 1959, pp. 1-15.

COOK, S. F.
1946
A reconsideration of shellmounds with respect to population and nutrition. American Antiquity. Vol. 12. Pages 50-53.

Available online:
http://captiveandfieldherpetology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Volume-2-Issue-1-1-1.pdf

DOURSON, Daniel C, CALDWELL, Ronald S. and Judy A. DOURSON
2018
Land Snails of Belize, Central America A chronicle of remarkable diversity and function. Goatslug Publications. 339 pages.

This is the most thorough coverage of any flora and fauna that I have experienced in recent years, PLUS, it has excellent photos of everything! Most scientific works are lists and tabulations (a way of saying almost no photos at all). And when photos are included, too often they are snapshots (often using a T-shirt or curtain or sheet as a backdrop). Every photo in this land snail book is well done. I am frankly amazed at the years of work of the authors and the people with whom they did field work, plus what must have been endless field trips of hiking to remote areas, and finding snails everywhere (I say this since in one year we have found only about three snails in the Yaxha park; there must be hundreds, but unless you know where, when, and how to find a snail, you won’t see them (we are looking primarily for flowering plants and ecosystems in the first year)).

This excellent monograph covers primarily land snails but also has a chapter on freshwater snails. These are crucial for archaeologists to learn about since jute snails are edible throughout Peten.

Sure would help to have this kind of monograph on Land and Freshwater Snails of Guatemala, Mushrooms of Guatemala, Lichen of Guatemala, Palms of Guatemala (we are ourselves working on mushrooms and palms and other topics of the Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo).

FRIDBERG, Diana
2013
Análisis de restos de fauna de un depósito de festín ritual de la Estructura 13R-10 (La Corona). Proyecto arqueológico La Corona: informe final, temporada 2012. Pages 337-402.

Available online:
www.academia.edu/11933536/An%C3%A1lisis_de_restos_de_fauna_de_un_dep
%C3%B3sito_de_fest%C3%ADn_ritual_de_la_Estructura_13R-10_La_Corona_

GOODRICK, C. and H. VAN DER SCHALIE
1937
Mollusca of Petén and north Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Misc. Publication No. 34.

Available online:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035561433&view=1up&seq=4

HINKLEY, A. A.
1920
Guatemala Mollusca. The Nautilus. Vol. XXXIV, No. 2. Pages 37-55.

Available online:
http://captiveandfieldherpetology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Volume-2-Issue-1-1-1.pdf

MEIGHAN, C. E.
1969
Mollusks as food remains in archaeological sites. In Science in archaeology, Eds. By D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, revised edition. Thames & Hudson. Pages 415-422.

MOHOLY, Hattula
1978
The utilization of Pomacea snails at Tikal, Guatemala. American Antiquity. Vol. 43, No. 1. Pages 65-73.

Sold online:
www.jstor.org/stable/279632?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

RANGEL, Luis and Jaquelina GAMBOA
1998
Estudio taxonómico de moluscos terrestres y dulceacuícolas de la región maya de México O. Reserva de la Biosfera Pantanos de Centla. Universidad Autónoma de Tabasco. SNIB-CONABIO. 90 pages.

Available online:
www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/resultados/InfG034.pdf

RANGEL, Luis
2000
Estudio taxonómico de moluscos terrestres y dulceacuícolas de la región maya de México I. Reserva de la Biosfera Pantanos de Centla. Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco. SNIB-CONABIO. 54 pages.

Available online:
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/resultados/Inf%20M068%20primera%20parte.pdf

RANGEL, Luis and Jaquelina GAMBOA
2001
Diversidad malacológica en la Región Maya I. Parque Estatal de la Sierra, Tabasco, México. Acta Zool. Mex. No. 82. Pages 1-12.

Available online:
http://captiveandfieldherpetology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Volume-2-Issue-1-1-1.pdf

RANGEL, Luis, GAMBOA, Jaquelina and Froylan ALEGRÍA
2004
Diversidad malacológica en la Región Maya. II. “Parque estatal Agua Blanca”,Tabasco, México. Acta Zool. Mex. Vol. 20, No. 1.

Available online:
www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372004000100005

RANGEL, Luis and Sonia CAREAGA
2018
Estudio taxonómico de moluscos terrestres y dulceacuícolas de la región maya de México I. Reserva de la Biosfera Patanos de Centla. CONABIO.

Available online:
https://www.gbif.org/es/dataset/80291478-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a