Niobrara ambersnail

Niobrara ambersnail
Niobrara ambersnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily: Succineoidea
Family: Succineinae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species: Oxyloma haydeni
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]

References

  1. ^ a b Arizona Game and Fish Department Heritage Management System
  2. ^ Final Wyoming Species of Greatest Conservation Need


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