| Succineidae | |
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| Kanab ambersnail Oxyloma kanabense |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Succineoidea Beck, 1837 |
| Family: | Succineidae Beck, 1837 |
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Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, land snails (and slugs), 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.[1]
Succineidae is the only family in the superfamily Succineoidea.[2]
The animal is very soft and also appears to be too large for the shell.[1]
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In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies greatly. The most common totals are less than 10, and also lies between 21 and 25, but other values are also possible (according to the values in this table).[3]
The family Succineidae contains two subfamilies (according taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Genera in the family Succineidae include[4]:
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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.[6]