Oxyloma | |
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A Kanab Ambersnail at Vaseys Paradise in Grand Canyon National Park. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Succineidae |
Subfamily: | Oxylomatinae Schileyko & Likharev, 1986 |
Genus: | Oxyloma Westerlund, 1885 [1] |
Oxyloma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.
The genus Oxyloma includes the following species and subspecies: [2]
The only Oxyloma species or subspecies listed in the IUCN Red List of 2006 is the Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabense), which is critically endangered. No others have been assessed by the IUCN.
The Niobrara ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni haydeni) is listed as a "Wyoming Species of Greatest Conservation Need" by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
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