Oxyloma retusum | |
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Conservation status | |
NE[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Succineoidea |
Family: | Succineidae |
Genus: | Oxyloma |
Species: | O. retusum |
Binomial name | |
Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834) |
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Synonyms | |
Oxyloma retusa |
Oxyloma retusum,[2] common name blunt ambersnail, is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae.
North America.
It eats dead and green plants in the summer and dead plants only in the winter.[3]