Amber

A thin transparent oblong amber-yellow shell with a small curl of 2-3 revolutions, a strongly swollen last revolution and a wide ovoid mouth. The height of the shell is 1.6–2.2 cm, and the width is 0.8–1.1 cm ^[1] .

This species is found in the Palearctic (Belgium, Czech Republic ^[2] , Germany, Netherlands ^[3] , Poland, Ukraine ^[4] , Russia, Slovakia, Bulgaria ^[5] , Great Britain, Ireland, Estonia ^[6] ) and North America (Canada )

The common amber lives in humid places - in wet meadows, near fresh water bodies. She often crawls on the floating leaves of aquatic plants, and occasionally also submerges in water ^[1] .

The life expectancy of common amber in the laboratory is from 13 to 17 months ^[7] .

Common amber is the host of the parasitic trematodes Leucochloridium paradoxum and Leucochloridium macrostomum , as well as the larvae of Pherbellia punctata ^[8] . It also serves as an intermediate host of the roundworm Aelurostrongylus falciformis ^[9] . Infected snails can be easily identified by the swollen and caterpillar-like tentacles, which for complete resemblance turn green. In the tentacles are parasite larvae. This neoplasm allows you to attract the attention of birds in whose body parasites develop. The infection of the avian organism itself occurs after the bird eats the snail.