Niobrara ambersnail

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Niobrara ambersnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species: O. haydeni
Subspecies: O. h. haydeni
Trinomial name
Oxyloma haydeni haydeni
(W. G. Binney, 1958)

The Niobrara ambersnail (Oxyloma [haydeni] haydeni) is a subspecies of snail. The Kanab ambersnail is typically regarded as a related subspecies. As with other species of ambersnail, it is distinguished by slight differences in shell morphology.[1]

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]

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