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''Novisuccinea'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of air-breathing land snails,
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod
mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the 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.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succineidae Beck, 1837. Accessed thr ...
, the ambersnails.


Species

Species in the genus ''Novisuccinea'' include: * ''
Novisuccinea ovalis ''Novisuccinea ovalis'', commonly called the oval ambersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails. Distribution This species occurs in North America. ...
'' (Say, 1817) -
oval ambersnail ''Novisuccinea ovalis'', commonly called the oval ambersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails. Distribution This species occurs in North America. ...
* ''
Novisuccinea chittenangoensis The Chittenango ovate amber snail (''Novisuccinea chittenangoensis'') is a species of small air-breathing land snail in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This species was discovered in 1905, and was reported three years later as a subsp ...
'' (Pilsbry, 1908) -
Chittenango ovate amber snail The Chittenango ovate amber snail (''Novisuccinea chittenangoensis'') is a species of small air-breathing land snail in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This species was discovered in 1905, and was reported three years later as a subsp ...


References

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