Niobrara ambersnail
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.
| Niobrara ambersnail | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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) | |
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
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