Succinella | |
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Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Succinella oblonga | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Succineoidea |
Family: | Succineidae |
Subfamily: | Succineinae |
Genus: |
Succinella Mabille, 1871 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Elasmognatha
Succinella is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, commonly called amber snails. They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes.
This genus of snails lives on the continent of Eurasia. [1]
Species within the genus Succinella include: