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Succinea
Sign in to saveSuccinea, common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilySuccineidae
Succinea ist eine sehr artenreiche Schneckengattung der Familie der Bernsteinschnecken (Succineidae) aus der Unterordnung der Landlungenschnecken (Stylommatophora).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8,986
- With media
- 264
- Family
- Succineidae
- Collections
- PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, LACM, SDNHM, UTEP, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Germany, France, Czechia, Morocco, Hungary, South Africa, Switzerland
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- Image
- Succinea.putris.jpg
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- Succinea
- topic's main category
- Category:Succinea
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Succinea, common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae.
The common name refers to the fact that live snails in this genus are translucent and similar to amber in appearance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Succinea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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