Novisuccinea

Novisuccinea
Novisuccinea lyrata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae
Subfamily: Succineinae
Genus:
Pilsbry, 1948[1]
Synonyms
  • Succinea (Novisuccinea) Schileyko & I. M. Likharev, 1986

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

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Novisuccinea:

  • Novisuccinea altaica (E. von Martens, 1871)
  • Novisuccinea chittenangoensis (Pilsbry, 1908) - Chittenango ovate amber snail (Madison County, New York)
  • Novisuccinea diserta Schileyko & I. M. Likharev, 1986
  • Novisuccinea evoluta (E. von Martens, 1879)
  • Novisuccinea lyrata (A. Gould, 1859)
  • Novisuccinea martensiana (G. Nevill, 1878)
  • Novisuccinea ovalis (Say, 1817) - oval ambersnail (eastern and central North America)
  • Novisuccinea pennsylvanica (Pilsbry, 1948)
  • Novisuccinea strigata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - striate ambersnail (north-western North America)

Novisuccinea chittenagoensis

  • Live individual
  • Illustration of shell
  • Several shells
  • With dime for scale

Novisuccinea lyrata

  • Live individual

Novisuccinea ovalis

  • Illustration of live individual
  • Illustration of shell

References

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


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