Oxyloma haydeni

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Oxyloma haydeni
Kanab Ambersnail.jpg
A live individual of Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species:
O. haydeni
Binomial name
Oxyloma haydeni
(W. G. Binney, 1858)

Oxyloma haydeni is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. A subspecies of this species is protected after having been recognized as Endangered.

Subspecies[]

  • Oxyloma haydeni haydeni (W. G. Binney, 1858) - Niobrara ambersnail
  • Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis (Pilsbry, 1948) - Kanab ambersnail an endangered subspecies [1]

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