''Succinella'' is a

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of small, air-breathing,

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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 ...

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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 ...

, commonly called amber snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Succinella Mabille, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995289 on 2022-07-10 They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes.

Distribution

This genus of snails lives on the continent of

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Species

Species within the genus ''Succinella'' include: * † '' Succinella hartmutnordsiecki'' (Schlickum & Strauch, 1979) * † '' Succinella martinovici'' (Brusina, 1902) * '' Succinella oblonga''

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References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. *

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External links

Mabille, J. (1871). Histoire malacologique du bassin parisien ou histoire naturelle des animaux mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles qui vivent dans les environs de Paris. Premier fascicule. 1-128, pl. 1-2. Paris, Bouchard-Huzard
* An image of four shells of ''S. oblonga'' at

Succineidae Taxa named by Jules François Mabille {{Succineidae-stub