Succineidae

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Succineidae
Kanab ambersnail Oxyloma kanabense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Pulmonata Family: Succineidae
Genera
See text.

Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. 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.

The animal is very soft and also appears to be too large for the shell.

Contents 1 Genera in the family Succineidae 2 Conservation status 2.1 List of threatened species 2.2 Assigned other IUCN categories 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Genera in the family Succineidae

• Catinella
• Novisuccinea
• Oxyloma
• Succinea
• Succinella

[edit] Conservation status

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) considers five species or subspecies of ambersnail as threatened with extinction, and a further three species are categorized as "data deficient" which were previously considered Vulnerable or extinct, and two species are listed as Near Threatened.

[edit] List of threatened species

• Oxyloma kanabense, Kanab Ambersnail (Critically Endangered)
• Succinea piratarum (Endangered)
• Succinea quadrasi (Endangered)
• Boninosuccinea ogasawarae (Vulnerable)
• Boninosuccinea punctulispira (Vulnerable)

[edit] Assigned other IUCN categories

• Catinella arenaria, Sandbowl Snail (Near Threatened)
• Succinea sanctaehelenae (Near Threatened)
• Succinea guamensis (Data Deficient, previously considered extinct)
• Succinea chittenangoensis, Chittenago Ovate Ambersnail (Data Deficient, previously vulnerable)
• Succinea philippinica (Data Deficient, previously vulnerable)

[edit] References

• The Animal Diversity Web (online)
• 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [www.iucnredlist.org]
• Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London

[edit] External links