Succinea concordialis

Succinea concordialis, common name the spotted ambersnail, is a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

Succinea concordialis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Succineidae
Genus:	Succinea
Species:	S. concordialis
Binomial name
Succinea concordialis I. Lea, 1864
Synonyms
Succinea forsheyi I. Lea, 1864 Succinea haleana I. Lea, 1864 (junior synonym) Succinea halei "I. Lea, 1866" (incorrect subsequent spelling of...) Succinea munita A. Gould, 1851 Succinea witteri Shimek, 1913 Succinea concordialis Gould, 1848 (partim.)[1] Synonyms of Succinea concordialis according to Pilsbry (1939):[2] Succinea munita Binney, 1851 Succinea forshei Lea, 1864 Succinea haleana Lea, 1864 Succinea halei Lea Succinea witteri Shimek, 1913[3]

Succinea concordialis is partially synonymous to Succinea forsheyi according to Hubrich (1985).^[4]

Original description of Succinea concordialis

Succinea concordialis was originally discovered and described by Augustus Addison Gould in Latin language in 1848.^[1]

Gould's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

SUCCINEA CONCORDIALIS. Testâ tenui, lucidâ, obliquè ovatâ,

acuminatâ, reflexâ, cereâ et ad apicem rubicundâ, leviter striatâ et lineis obscuris volventibus insculptâ; anfr. 3 perobliquis, supernis parvulis, tumidis, suturâ profunda; aperturâ ovatâ, trientes duæ longitudinis testæ æquante, basi rotundatâ; columellâ arcuatâ, absque plicâ, leviter arrectâ; intus micante. Long ½, lat. ⅓ poll. Hab. near Lake Concordia.

At first view, this might be mistaken for Limnea columella. Its color and texture are like S. amphibia, from which it differs chiefly in the slight upturning of the edge of the columellar lip,

the presence of the obscure revolving lines and the ruddy apex.

Distribution

This species occurs in the US, in these States:^[5] Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa,^[6][7] Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.^[1]

1. Gould A. A. (7 June) 1848. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. III. 1848 to 1851.. Cambridge. page 38.
2. Pilsbry. 1939. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico), Academy of Natural Sciences. ISBN 1-4223-1778-1, ISBN 978-1-4223-1778-5. page 833.
3. Shimek B. (26 April) 1913. A new Succinea. Bulletin of the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(4): 31-34, plate I, figures 1-5.
4. Hubricht L. 1985. The distribution of the native land mollusks of the eastern United States. Fieldiana: Zoology, 24: 1-191.
5. Succinea forsheyi NatureServe.org natureserve.org, accessed 6 August 2009.
6. Terrestrial Snails. The Poweshiek Skipper Project, accessed 4 August 2009.
7. Neritopsina of Iowa. Snails. accessed 4 August 2009. (cited as Succinea concordialis Gould, 1848)

• InvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project.

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. pages 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. Pages 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.