Succineidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as amber snails, ambersnails, amber shells, succineids
Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.
Species
amber snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilySuccineidae
Observations recorded143,391
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,278
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Succineidae
- Collections
- UTEP, UF
- Recorded in
- United States
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Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.
They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored. They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Succineidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.