see text Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.

[1] They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored.

[3] The soft parts of the animal appear to be too large for the shell.

[2] In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies greatly.

[4] The family Succineidae contains two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Genera in the family Succineidae include:[5] The World Conservation Union (IUCN) considers five species or subspecies of ambersnail as threatened with extinction, and a further three species are categorized as "data deficient" which were previously considered Vulnerable or Extinct, and two species are listed as Near Threatened.