Hi Andrew at CONCH-Lers,

Succinea needs a HUMIDITY only, it is a terrestrial Mollusca.

Cheers,
Lubosh R. Kolouch
Hradec Kralove (city)
Czech Republic (CZ)
European Union
http://lrk.host.sk



> 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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