Succineidae

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Succineidae
Amber snail (Succinea putris).jpg
Succinea putris in Oxfordshire
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Succineoidea
Family: Succineidae
Beck, 1837
Genera

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Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea. [1]

Contents

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. [2]

Succineidae is the only family in the superfamily Succineoidea. [3]

The soft parts of the animal appear to be too large for the shell. [2]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies greatly. The most common totals are less than 10, and also lies between 21 and 25, but other values are also possible (according to the values in this table). [4]

Taxonomy

The family Succineidae contains two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

Genera in the family Succineidae include: [5]

The succineid slug Hyalimax maillardi from the island of Reunion Hyalimax maillardi DosD'Ane 0405.jpg
The succineid slug Hyalimax maillardi from the island of Réunion
Catinellinae Odhner, 1950
Oxylomatinae Schileyko & Likharev, 1986
Succineinae Beck, 1837
Nomen nudum
Synonyms

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. [7]

Threatened species

Assigned other IUCN categories

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<i>Succinea</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Succinella oblonga</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Amphibulima</i> Genus of gastropods

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References

  1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succineidae Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181585 on 2021-02-23
  2. 1 2 Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs . CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN   0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  5. ↑ The Animal Diversity Web (online)
  6. ↑ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
  7. ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [www.iucnredlist.org]
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