Oxyloma
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 A Kanab Ambersnail at Vaseys Paradise in Grand Canyon National Park.
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Oxyloma is a genus of snails. They are part of the family Succineidae (ambersnails), along side Catinella, Succinea and Novisuccinea.
Oxyloma includes the following species and subspecies:[1]
- Oxyloma decampi (Marshall ambersnail)
- Oxyloma deprimidum
- Oxyloma elegans (Risso, 1826)
- Oxyloma effusum (coastal plain ambersnail)
- Oxyloma groenlandicum (ruddy ambersnail)
- Oxyloma hawkinsi (boundary ambersnail)
- Oxyloma haydeni
- Oxyloma haydeni haydeni (Niobrara ambersnail)
- Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis (Kanab ambersnail)
- Oxyloma missoula (ninepipes ambersnail)
- Oxyloma nuttallianum (oblique ambersnail)
- Oxyloma peoriense (depressed ambersnail)
- Oxyloma retusum (blunt ambersnail)
- Oxyloma salleanum (Louisiana ambersnail)
- Oxyloma sillimani (Humboldt ambersnail)
- Oxyloma subeffusum (Chesapeake ambersnail)
- Oxyloma verrilli (maritime ambersnail)
[edit] Conservation status
The only Oxyloma species or subspecies listed in the IUCN Red List of 2006 is the Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis), 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.
