Novisuccinea

Novisuccinea
Novisuccinea lyrata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Succineidae
Subfamily:	Succineinae
Genus:	Novisuccinea Pilsbry, 1948 [1]
Synonyms
Succinea (Novisuccinea) Schileyko & I. M. Likharev, 1986

Novisuccinea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Novisuccinea:

• Novisuccinea altaica (E. von Martens, 1871)
• Novisuccinea chittenangoensis (Pilsbry, 1908) - Chittenango ovate amber snail (Madison County, New York)
• Novisuccinea diserta Schileyko & I. M. Likharev, 1986
• Novisuccinea evoluta (E. von Martens, 1879)
• Novisuccinea lyrata (A. Gould, 1859)
• Novisuccinea martensiana (G. Nevill, 1878)
• Novisuccinea ovalis (Say, 1817) - oval ambersnail (eastern and central North America)
• Novisuccinea pennsylvanica (Pilsbry, 1948)
• Novisuccinea strigata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - striate ambersnail (north-western North America)

Gallery

Novisuccinea chittenagoensis

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  Live individual
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  Illustration of shell
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  Several shells
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  With dime for scale

Novisuccinea lyrata

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  Live individual

Novisuccinea ovalis

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  Illustration of live individual
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  Illustration of shell

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. (1948). "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico vol. II part 2." Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., page 801.