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

(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

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

Amber snail

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