''Succinea concordialis'',
common name
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the spotted ambersnail, is a
species of small, air-breathing,
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Succineidae
Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succineidae Beck, 1837. Accessed thr ...
, the amber snails.
''Succinea concordialis'' is partially synonymous to ''Succinea forsheyi'' according to Hubrich (1985).
Original description of ''Succinea concordialis''
''Succinea concordialis'' was originally discovered and described by
Augustus Addison Gould
Augustus Addison Gould (April 23, 1805 – September 15, 1866) was an American conchologist and malacologist.
Biography
Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, he was the son of music teacher Nathaniel Duren Gould (1781–1864) who was also noted ...
in Latin language in 1848.
Gould's original text (the
type description
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) reads as follows:
Distribution
This species occurs in the US, in these States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa,
''Neritopsina of Iowa. Snails''
accessed 4 August 2009. (cited as ''Succinea concordialis'' Gould, 1848) Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.
Further reading
* John K. Tucker. 1977. ''Succinea witteri Shimek (Gastropoda: Succineidae) in Illinois (Natural history miscellanea)''. Chicago Academy of Sciences, 7 pages.
* Stevens et al
''Oxyloma Taxonomy Draft Final Report''
- image of reproductive system of ''Succinea concordialis'' at page 18.
External links
* Hubricht. page
135
136.
Links for ''Succinea concordialis'':
* http://www.gbif.net/species/16181652 - there is under uncorfirmed names as "''Succinea concordialis'' Gould 1851"
* Binney A. & Gould A. A. (ed.) 1851
''The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America Volume II.''
Boston. Page
82
83.
* Binney A. & Gould A. A. (ed.) 1857
''The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America Volume III. Plates.''
Boston
plate LXVII a
figure 2.
Succineidae
Gastropods described in 1864
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