Succineidae

Taxobox
name = Succineidae

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Kanab ambersnail
"Oxyloma kanabense"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Succineidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = 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.

Genera in the family Succineidae

* "Catinella"
* "Novisuccinea"
* "Oxyloma"
* "Succinea"
* "Succinella"

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.

List of threatened species

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

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)

References

* [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Succineidae.html 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

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