Biology:Novisuccinea

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Novisuccinea
Succinea ovalis drawing.jpg
Drawing of a live individual of Novisuccinea ovalis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Infraclass: Euthyneura
Cohort: Tectipleura
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Succineoidea
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Novisuccinea
Pilsbry, 1948[1]

Novisuccinea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

Species

Species in the genus Novisuccinea include:

  • Novisuccinea chittenangoensis (Pilsbry, 1908) - Chittenango ovate amber snail (Madison County, New York)
  • Novisuccinea ovalis (Say, 1817) - oval ambersnail (eastern and central North America)
  • Novisuccinea strigata (Pfeiffer, 1855) - striate ambersnail (northwestern North America)

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1948). "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico vol. II part 2." Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., page 801.

Wikidata ☰ Q3072751 entry