Succinea costaricana
| Succinea costaricana | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | S. costaricana
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| Succinea costaricana von Martens, 1898
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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]