Succineidae

Kanab ambersnail
Oxyloma kanabense

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Pulmonata
Family:	Succineidae

Genera

See text.

Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored. They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes.

The animal is very soft and also appears to be too large for the shell.

1 Genera in the family Succineidae
2 Conservation status
- 2.1 List of threatened species
- 2.2 Assigned other IUCN categories
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Genera in the family Succineidae

[edit] Conservation status

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) considers five species or subspecies of ambersnail as threatened with extinction, and a further three species are categorized as "data deficient" which were previously considered Vulnerable or extinct, and two species are listed as Near Threatened.

[edit] List of threatened species

Oxyloma kanabense, Kanab Ambersnail (Critically Endangered)
Succinea piratarum (Endangered)
Succinea quadrasi (Endangered)
Boninosuccinea ogasawarae (Vulnerable)
Boninosuccinea punctulispira (Vulnerable)

[edit] Assigned other IUCN categories

Catinella arenaria, Sandbowl Snail (Near Threatened)
Succinea sanctaehelenae (Near Threatened)
Succinea guamensis (Data Deficient, previously considered extinct)
Succinea chittenangoensis, Chittenago Ovate Ambersnail (Data Deficient, previously vulnerable)
Succinea philippinica (Data Deficient, previously vulnerable)

[edit] References

The Animal Diversity Web (online)
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [www.iucnredlist.org]
Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London