Terrestrial Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the City of Plovdiv

A complete review of the terrestrial malacofauna in Plovdiv City was conducted based on the literary and new data. The outcome of the research is the identification of 49 species and subspecies of terrestrial snails, belonging to 19 families, from which the presence of 37 species in the city is reported for the first time. It has been determined that 7 of the species reported prior to the research are no longer located in the city of Plovdiv. A zoogeographic analysis of the malacofauna was performed. Interesting cases of registered coastal, endemic of the Rhodopes Mountains and of Plovdiv species have been reported.