Niobrara ambersnail

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Niobrara ambersnail
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species:
Subspecies:
O. h. haydeni
Trinomial name
Oxyloma haydeni haydeni
(W. G. Binney, 1858)

Oxyloma haydeni haydeni, common name the Niobrara ambersnail, is a subspecies of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

The Kanab ambersnail is often regarded as a subspecies of this species. As with other species of ambersnail, it is distinguished by slight differences in shell morphology. [1]

Distribution

The snail is found in Northern Arizona and the Kanab Canyon area of southern Utah. [1] It is also found in Wyoming, where it is classed as one of the species in greatest conservation need. [2]

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