Amber snail

Succinea tenella

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae

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.

Distribution

Amber snail — (c) Sutcharit C, Thach P, Chhuoy S, Ngor PB, Jeratthitikul E, Siriwut W, Srisonchai R, Ng TH, Pholyotha A, Jirapatrasilp P, Panha S (2020) Annotated checklist of the land snail fauna from southern Cambodia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 948: 1-46., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Italy · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Sutcharit C, Thach P, Chhuoy S, Ngor PB, Jeratthitikul E, Siriwut W, Srisonchai R, Ng TH, Pholyotha A, Jirapatrasilp P, Panha S (2020) Annotated checklist of the land snail fauna from southern Cambodia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 948: 1-46., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionSuccineidae, Wikipedia contributors

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