Novisuccinea ovalis

Novisuccinea ovalis
Novisuccinea ovalis
Drawing of Novisuccinea ovalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily: Succineoidea
Family: Succineidae
Subfamily: Succineinae
Genus: Novisuccinea
Species: N. ovalis
Binomial name
Novisuccinea ovalis
(Say, 1817)
Synonyms
  • Succinea ovalis
  • Succinea obliqua

Novisuccinea ovalis, common name the oval ambersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

Drawing of the shell of Novisuccinea ovalis

Contents

Distribution

This species occurs in North America.

Parasites

Parasites of Novisuccinea ovalis include:

References

  1. ^ Fried B., Beers K., Lewis PD Jr. (1993). Lipids in the broodsac of Leucochloridium variae (Digenea, Leucochloridiidae) and its snail host Succinea ovalis. Int. J. Parasitol. 23(1): 129-131. PubMed.

External links

  • Hoagland K. E. & Davis G. M. (1987). "The succineid snail fauna of Chittenango Falls, New York: taxonomic status with comparisons to other relevant taxa". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 465-526.
  • Pilsbry H. A. (1908). "Notes on Succinea ovalis Say and Succinea obliqua Say". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 60: 45-51 + pl. 7.


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