''Novisuccinea'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. 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 o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Succineidae Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often ...

, the ambersnails.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus ''Novisuccinea'': *'' Novisuccinea altaica'' *'' Novisuccinea chittenangoensis'' - Chittenango ovate amber snail (Madison County, New York) *'' Novisuccinea diserta'' *'' Novisuccinea evoluta'' *''

Novisuccinea lyrata ''Novisuccinea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Novisuccinea'': *' ...

'' *'' Novisuccinea martensiana'' *'' Novisuccinea ovalis'' - oval ambersnail (eastern and central North America) *''

Novisuccinea pennsylvanica ''Novisuccinea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Novisuccinea'': *' ...

'' *'' Novisuccinea strigata'' - striate ambersnail (north-western North America)

Gallery

''Novisuccinea chittenagoensis''

File:Novisuccinea chittenangoensis 4.png, Live individual File:Novisuccinea chittenangoensis shell.jpg, Illustration of shell File:Novisuccinea chittenangoensis shell 4.jpg, Several shells File:Novisuccinea chittenangoensis 3.jpg, With dime for scale

''Novisuccinea lyrata''

File:Novisuccinea lyrata.jpg, Live individual

''Novisuccinea ovalis''

File:Succinea ovalis drawing.jpg, Illustration of live individual File:Novisuccinea ovalis shell.jpg, Illustration of shell

References

Succineidae {{Succineidae-stub