When we were in Chincoteague, Virginia, several summers ago, there were
succineids stuck to the outside walls of the hotel we stayed at. During
the day the snails would be in the sun. And there was no water in the
vicinity, just grassy fields or parking lots. I took specimens but never
figured out the species.

Aydin
snailstales.blogspot.com


On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:28:29 +1200, Andrew Grebneff
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>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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