98 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
SUCCINEA PFEIFFERI, ROSSMASSLER. 
SHELL oval, elongated, slightly curved at the extremities, 
transparent, pale yellow or reddish in colour; whorls 
three, twisted, the body-whorl occupying nearly the whole 
of the shell; spire short, conical, with the apex tuber- 
culous; suture oblique, well defined, but not deep; 
_ aperture an elongated oval, acute above, rounded below, 
generally prolonged as far as 3rds of the total height 
of the shell. Length 12, diam. 6-7 mill. Aperture, 9 
mill. long, 5 mill. wide. 
Habitat.—Marshes and marshy places. 
v. propinqua (Baud): Shell elongated, ventricose ; 
spire short; body-whorl very large; aperture large, oval, 
elongated, occupying 3rds of the total height of the 
shell. 
v. brevispirata (Baud): Shell short, moderately 
convex; spire extremely short; body-whorl occupying 
nearly the whole of the shell; aperture oval, rounded, 
elevated, moderately large, comprising at least grds of 
the total height of the shell. 
v. ventricosa (Baud): Spire more elevated; body- 
whorl convex, large ; aperture large, less elevated, being 
a little more than half the total height of the shell. 
v. virescens (7. D. A. Cockerell): Shell greenish ; 
spire elongated ; suture deep. 
v. rufescens (7. D. A. Cockerell): Shell reddish ; 
suture shallow. 
v. intermedia (Bean): Shell yellow, acuminated oval 
in shape; spire prominent, rose-coloured; suture well- 
defined, deep; long. 9, diam. 5 mill; apert. 6 mill. long, 
3 mill. wide. 
v. elata (Baud): Shell very slender ; spire long, very 
tortuous ; body-whorl slightly convex, very contracted at 
its origin; aperture oval, slightly elevated, hardly one- 
half of the total height of the shell. 
