Succinea costaricana
Succinea costaricana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Succineoidea |
Family: | Succineidae |
Genus: | Succinea |
Species: | S. costaricana |
Binomial name | |
Succinea costaricana von Martens, 1898 | |
Succinea costaricana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is Neotropical and includes:[1]
Ecology
Succinea costaricana usually lives under leaf litter.
Human importance
Succinea costaricana is quarantine pest, which damages ornamental plants.[1] In 1992, an estimated population density at an ornamental plant farm growing Dracaena in Limón Province, Costa Rica, was 282,900 snails per ha.[1]
References
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