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erroneously named ''Oxyloma'' by Gardner and Campbell in 2002 is now known as '' Oxyeurax. ''Oxyloma'' is a

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of air-breathing

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the

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Succineidae Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often ...

, the ambersnails.

Species

The genus ''Oxyloma'' includes the following

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animal diversity species list *'' Oxyloma decampi'' - Marshall ambersnail *'' Oxyloma deprimidum'' *''

Oxyloma elegans ''Oxyloma elegans'' is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails. Description The shell usually has fewer than 3 whorls. The body whorl is very large a ...

'' ( Risso, 1826) *'' Oxyloma effusum'' - coastal plain ambersnail *'' Oxyloma groenlandicum'' - ruddy ambersnail *'' Oxyloma hawkinsi'' - boundary ambersnail *'' Oxyloma haydeni'' (W. G. Binney, 1858) **'' Oxyloma haydeni haydeni'' (W. G. Binney, 1858) - Niobrara ambersnail **'' Oxyloma haydeni kanabense'' (Pilsbry, 1948) - Kanab ambersnail *'' Oxyloma missoula'' Hubricht, 1982 - ninepipes ambersnail *'' Oxyloma nuttallianum'' - oblique ambersnail * '' Oxyloma patentissima'' (Pfeiffer, 1853) van Bruggen A. C. & Appleton C. C. (1977). "Studies on the ecology and systematics of the terrestrial molluscs of the lake Sibaya area of Zululand, South Africa". ''

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*'' Oxyloma peoriense'' - depressed ambersnail *'' Oxyloma retusum'' (Lea, 1834) - blunt ambersnail * ''

Oxyloma sarsii ''Oxyloma sarsii'' is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails. Description Only reliably separated from the very similar '' Oxyloma elegans'' by diss ...

'' (Esmark & Hoyer, 1886) *'' Oxyloma salleanum'' - Louisiana ambersnail *'' Oxyloma sillimani'' - Humboldt ambersnail *'' Oxyloma subeffusum'' - Chesapeake ambersnail *'' Oxyloma verrilli'' - maritime ambersnail

Conservation status

The only ''Oxyloma'' species or subspecies listed in the

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of 2006 is the Kanab ambersnail (''Oxyloma haydeni kanabense''), which is

critically endangered An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...

. 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

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References

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