While I was in Nova Scotia last month I collected 4 live specimens of
a large species of Succinea, all in the Bay of Fundy town of
Wolfville.

Two were attached to shrub leaves about 1m away from & 1m above an
artificial stream in the Acadia University grounds. One was lying on
a sidewalk well away from any stream/pond (I assume it fell from a
wading bird) and one was on an artichoke leaf in a garden hundreds of
meters away from any water apart from a 2m artificial pond.

Succinea is supposed to be fluvolittoral (ie living above "high tide"
on freshwater bodies). I can't help wondering if at least some
species are actually independent of water?

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