Amber snail
The amber snail has a thin, shiny shell the colour of amber, a golden yellow. The shell is small, with a very big opening, so the snail looks almost too big for its house. It loves very wet places near water.
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Fun facts
Its shell is only about 1 to 2 centimetres tall.
The soft body is yellow with a reddish glow, but some amber snails are dark grey.
It lives on plants on river banks and in marshes, where everything is damp.
In a lab, amber snails lived for about a year and a half.
Tiny worms can live inside it as unwelcome guests, and one kind of fly is its enemy too.
Most asked questions about Amber snail
?Where does the amber snail live?
In very damp places, on plants along rivers and in marshes, in Europe, northern Asia and Canada.
?Why is it called the amber snail?
Because its thin shell is golden yellow like amber.
?Does the amber snail live in Estonia?
Yes, it is found in Estonia and in many other European countries.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Succinea putris
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Succineidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Succineidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Succinea putris (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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