Fred Gilbert Thompson

Fred Gilbert Thompson, herpetologist & malacologist.

• Curator of Malacology, Department of Natural Sciences, Flolida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States.

(List may be incomplete)

• 14 taxon names authored by Fred Gilbert Thompson

• 1957. A new Mexican gartersnake (genus Thamnophis) with notes on related forms. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 584: 1–10. hdl: 2027.42/57022 Reference page. 
• 1957. A collection of land and fresh-water mollusks from Tabasco, Mexico. The Nautilus 70(3): 97–102.
• 1957. A collection of mollusks from northern Venezuela. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 591: 1–10, 4 figs, 2 pls.

• 1958. The land snail genus Microconus. The Nautilus 72(1): 5–10, pls. 1–2: 1 map.

• 1959. A new Spiraxis from Guatemala. The Nautilus 72(4): 115, pl. 12, fig. 4.
• 1959. Two new pleurocerid snails from eastern Mexico. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 600: 1–8.
• 1959. A new helicid snail from Mexico. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 610: 1–9.

• 1962. A new endodontid land snail from Guatemala. The Nautilus 76(1): 23–25, text-fig. 1.

• 1963. New land snails from El Salvador. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76: 19–32.
• 1963. Systematic notes on the land snails of the genus Tomocyclus (Cyclophoridae). Breviora 181: 1–12.
• 1963. Two Mexican species of Guillarmodia s.s. The Nautilus 76(3): 95–99, text-figs. 1–4.

• 1964. A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 12(1): 97–105.
• 1964. Systematic studies on Mexican land snails of the genus Holospira, subgenus Bostrichocentrum (Stylommatophora: Urocoptidae). Malacologia 2(1): 131–143.

• 1966. A new pomatiasid from Chiapas, Mexico. The Nautilus 80(1): 24–28, figs. 1–5.

• 1967. A new cyclophorid land snail from the West Indies (Prosobranchia), and the discussion of a new subfamily. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 80: 13–18.
• 1967. New helicid snail from Zacatecas, Mexico. The Nautilus 81(1): 22–25: 27, figs. 1–4.
• 1967. Two new species of Pachychilus from northeastern Mexico. The Nautilus 81(1): 25–31.
• 1967. The land and freshwater snails of Campeche. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 2 (4): 221–256.

• King, F.W. & 1968. A review of the American lizards of the genus Xenosaurus Peters. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(2): 93–123. DOI: 10.58782/flmnh.ushf5538 Reference page. 
• 1968. Ceochasma, a remarkable new land snail from Colima, Mexico (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Helicinidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81: 45–52.
• 1968. Two noteworthy achatinids from Panama. The Nautilus 81(3): 105.
• 1968. Some Mexican land snails of the family Urocoptidae. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 12: 125–183; fig. 1–29.
• 1968. The aquatic snails of the family Hydrobiidae of peninsular Florida. Gainesville, University of Florida Press. xv + 268 pp.

• 1969. Bulimus unicolor and Bulimulus ocraspiris. The Nautilus 82(3): 106–107.
• 1969. Some Mexican and Central American land snails of the family Cyclophoridae. Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society 54(2): 35–78.

• 1970. Some hydrobiid snails from Georgia and Florida. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 32: 241–265.

• 1971. Some Mexican land snails of the genera Coelostemma and Metastoma (Urocoptidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 15(1): 267–302.

• 1974. A xeric snail from New Mexico. The Southwestern naturalist 19(1): 53–56.

• & Franz, R. 1976. Some urocoptid land snails from Hispaniola. Revista de Biología Tropical 24(1): 7–33.
• 1976. The occurrence in Florida of the West Indian land snail Bulimulus guadalupensis. The Nautilus 90(1): 10.
• 1976. The genus Epirobia in Chiapas, Mexico. The Nautilus 90(1): 41–46, figs. 1–3.
• 1976. Land snails from Monito Island, West Indies. The Nautilus 90(4): 152–153.

• 1977. The polygyrid genus Mcleania in Hispaniola. The Nautilus 91(3): 77–80, fig. 1.
• 1977. The hydrobiid snail genus Marstonia. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 21: 113–158.

• & McCaleb, J.E. 1978. A new freshwater snail from a spring in eastern Alabama. American Midland Naturalist 100(2): 350–358.
• 1978. Two new land snails of the genus Opisthostoma from Borneo (Prosobranchia, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(2): 386–391.
• 1978. A new genus of operculate land snails from Hispaniola with comments on the status of family Annulariidae. The Nautilus 92(1): 41–54, figs. 1–6.

• & Deisler, J.E. 1980. The introduction of the land snail Alcadia striata (Lamarck) into Miami, Florida. The Nautilus 94(1): 3–4.
• & Lee, H.G. 1980. A new helicarionid land snail from the southeastern United States. Malacological Review 13(1-2): 37–44. Reference page. 
• 1980. Proserpinoid land snails and their relationships within the Archaeogastropoda. Malacologia 20(1): 1–33.

• & Deisler, J.E. 1982. A new tree snail, genus Drymaeus (Bulimulidae) from southeastern Peru. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95: 265–268.
• 1982. A new species of Euglandina from Peru (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 95(4): 763–765.
• 1982. The Helicina umbonata complex in the West Indies (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Helicinidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 28(1): 1–23.

• & Dance, S.P. 1983. Non-marine mollusks of Borneo. II Pulmonata: Pupillidae, Clausiliidae. III Prosobranchia: Hydrocenidae, Helicinidae. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 29(3): 101–152.
• 1983. The planorbid snail Micromenetus dilatatus avus (Pilsbry) in the West Indies and Central America. The Nautilus 97(2): 68–69.

• & Auffenberg, K. 1984. Hypselostoma latispira, a new pupillid land snail from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97 (1): 86–89. Reference page. 
• 1984. North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae. Malacologia 25(1): 109–141.

• Thomas, R., McDiarmid, R.W. & 1985. Three new species of thread snakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Hispaniola. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98(1) 204–220. BHL; hdl: 10088/4581 Reference page. 
• & Huck, E.L. 1985. The land snail family Hydrocenidae in Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands), and comments on other Pacific islands species. The Nautilus 99(2-3): 81–84, figs. 1–9.
• 1985. Columbinia vasquezi, a new clausiliid land snail from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98(4): 768–773.

• & Iliffe, T.M. 1987. Two new operculate land snails from the Palau Archipelago. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(3): 447–451. Reference page. 
• 1987. Giant carnivorous land snails from Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 30(2): 29–52.
• 1987. A review of the land snails of Mona Island, West Indies. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 31(2): 69–106.
• 1987. A new prosobranch land snail from eastern Mexico. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 117(4/6): 159–162.

• & Lee, H.G. 1988. Hypselostoma holimanae new species, a pupillid land snail from Thailand. The Nautilus 102(2): 78–81, figs. 1–6. Reference page. 
• 1988. The hollow-ribbed land snails of the genus Coelostemma of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 33(2): 87–112.

• & Correa, S. 1991. Mexican land snails of the genus Hendersoniella. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological sciences 36(1): 1–23.
• & Hershler, R. 1991. New hydrobiid snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Truncatelloidea) from North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 104(4): 669–683. Reference page. 
• & Hershler, R. 1991. Two new hydrobiid snails (Amnicolinae) from Florida and Georgia, with a discussion of the biogeography of freshwater gastropods of South Georgia streams. Malacological Review 24: 55–72. Reference page. 

• & Correa, A. 1994. Land snails of the genus Coelocentrum from northeastern Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological sciences 36: 141–173.

• 1995. A new freshwater snail from the Coosa River, Alabama (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 502–507.
• 1995. New and little known land snails of the family Spiraxidae from Central America and Mexico (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 39: 45–85.

• & Al López, S.J. 1996. A new land snail of the genus Gastrocopta from Nicaragua (Pulmonata: Vertiginidae), and its relationship to species from northeastern South America. American Malacological Bulletin 13: 47–54.

• Thompson, F.G. & Upatham, S. 1997. Vertiginid land snails from Thailand (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Pupilloidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences 39(7): 221-245. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 1998. Clausiliid land snails from Hispaniola and their relationships to other New World genera (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Clausiliidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 127(1/2): 33‑41. Frankfurt am Main.

• & Brewer, G.P. 2000. Landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from northern Mexico (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicoidea, Humboldtianidae). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43(2): 49–77.
• 2000. Freshwater snails of the genus Elimia from the Coosa River system, Alabama. Walkerana 11(25): 1–54.
• 2000. Three new freshwater snails of the genus Cincinnatia from peninsular Florida (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Walkerana 11(25): 55–73.

• 2001. A new hydrobiid snail from a saline spring in southern Alabama (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rissooidea). American Malacological Bulletin 16(1/2): 41–46.

• & Hershler, R. 2002. Tepalcatia, a new genus of hydrobiid snails (Prosobranchia: Rissooidea) from the Rio Balsas Basin, Central Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115: 189–204. Reference page. 
• & Hershler, R. 2002. Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, mew genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae). The Veliger 45(3): 269–271. Reference page. 
• 2002. The taxonomic status of the freshwater snail Antillobia margalefi Altaba, 1993, from Hispaniola (Hydrobiidae: Cochliopinae). The Veliger 45(3): 264–267.

• & Mihalcik, E. 2005. Urocoptid landsnails of the genus Holospira from southern Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45(3): 63–124. Reference page. 
• 2005. Two new species of hydrobiid snails of the genus Marstonia from Alabama and Georgia. The Veliger 47(3): 175–182.

• & Mejia, O. 2006. Two new land snails of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Chihuahua, Mexico. The Nautilus 120: 25–29.
• 2006. A new land snail of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The Nautilus 120: 21–24.
• 2006. Some landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from Chihuahua and western Texas. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 46(3): 61–98.

• 2008. An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America. 903 pp.
• 2008. The clausiliid land snail genus Columbinia in Venezuela, and the description of a new species (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae: Neniinae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 137(2): 127–132.

• 2009. Five landsnails of the family Spiraxidae from southeastern Mexico: (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 138(1): 63–70.

• 2010. Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 58(1): 195–202.

• & Correa-Sandoval, A. 2011. Another new species of the urocoptid land snail genus Hendersoniella (Pulmonata, Urocoptidae, Holospirinae) from northeastern Mexico. The Veliger 51: 91–95.
• & Mihalcik, E.L. 2011. Land snails of the family Holospiridae from northern Mexico: Coelostemma and Metastoma (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140(2): 245–263. Reference page. 
• 2011. Mexistrophia, a new genus of Cerionidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea). The Nautilus 125(4): 182–192.
• 2011. An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and Central America. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 50(1): 1–299.

• & Naranjo-García, E. 2012. Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197–208.
• Thompson, F.G. 2012: The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(3): 167-215. PDF Reference page. 
• 2012. A new species of urocoptid land snail from Haiti and a discussion of the genus Autocoptis (Gastropoda: Urocoptidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 60(3): 1187–1193.

• & Dourson, D.C. 2013. A new land snail of the genus Eucalodium from Belize (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea: Eucalodiidae). The Nautilus 127: 153–155.

• 2014. A review of the Mexican and Central American land snails of the genus Eucalodium Crosse & Fischer (Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea: Eucalodiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 143(1): 69–105.