List of land and freshwater invertebrates kept in collections

Since Zootierlsite does not count invertebrates. I am quite intrested what kind of invertebrates, espcially, critically endangered/extinct in the wild süecies are keept in the world. There is such diversirty, and sadly so many anderned species (just look at snail or fresh water mussel specieses).
 
Not sure if anyone exhibits them, but there's a handful of zoos working with breeding and re-introducing North American burying beetles. Roger Williams Park Zoo used to exhibit them, and still keeps them behind-the-scenes, while there are two or three zoos in the Midwest with them too (The Wilds for sure, and I think both Cincinnati and Saint Louis have them too?)
 
Omaha has been breeding and releasing back into the wild the critically endangered Salt Creek Tiger Beetle for a number of years. I believe at times they may be viewable in the downstairs portion of the Insect Pavilion. If you go down the path by the Skyfari you can view into this lab, not many know about it this area.
 
A few species I'm missing and see commonly in pet shops are
- Blue wood shrimp (Atya gabonensis) and
- Swan and Duck mussel (Anodonta cygnea and Anodonta anatina)

And though I personally haven't seen them:
- Malawi blue crab (Potamonautes lirrangensis)
Is also listed on aquarium website Aquainfo
 
Among threatened species of invertebrate, there are a fair number kept in captivity:
  • Quite a few tarantulas are threatened (several of the Asian Poecilotheria and Central American Brachypelma tarantulas, for example)
  • The Critically Endangered golden-eyed or black beauty stick insect seems fairly common
  • Several zoos in the UK or more widely in Europe keep Desertas wolf spiders, Vietnamese giant magnolia snails (both Critically Endangered) and Seychelles giant millipedes (Endangered)
  • The Simandoa cave cockroach is often described as Extinct in the Wild (albeit the IUCN has not assessed it as such yet) and seems to be kept in a few places
  • Lord Howe Island stick insects are starting to get a bit more frequent outside of Australia
  • I'm not certain how some species breeding programmes have fared - I know that there was a breeding programme for a Critically Endangered French endemic, the Crau Plain grasshopper, being set up in Europe, but I haven't heard any updates about it since around 2017
 
GiratinaIsGod said:
Since Zootierlsite does not count invertebrates. I am quite intrested what kind of invertebrates, espcially, critically endangered/extinct in the wild süecies are keept in the world. There is such diversirty, and sadly so many anderned species (just look at snail or fresh water mussel specieses).
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There’s currently attempts by a Victorian government research organisation (ARI), trialling captive breeding for the critically endangered Glenelg Freshwater Mussel (Hyridella glenelgensis), not in a zoo but interesting nonetheless.
 
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