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Oxyloma
	A Kanab Ambersnail at Vaseys Paradise in Grand Canyon National Park.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Succineidae
Subfamily:	Oxylomatinae; Schileyko & Likharev, 1986
Genus:	Oxyloma; Westerlund, 1885

The Jurassic Astartidae clam erroneously named Oxyloma by Gardner and Campbell in 2002 is now known as Oxyeurax.

Oxyloma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

Species

The genus Oxyloma includes the following species and subspecies:^[2]

Oxyloma decampi - Marshall ambersnail
Oxyloma deprimidum
Oxyloma elegans (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)^[3]
Oxyloma peoriense - depressed ambersnail
Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834) - blunt ambersnail
Oxyloma sarsii (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 IUCN Red List of 2006 is the Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabense), which is critically endangered. 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 Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

References

^ Westerlund C. A. (1885). Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (Europa, Kaukasien, Sibirien, Turan, Persien, Kurdistan, Armenien, Mesopotamien, Kleinasien, Syrien, Arabien, Egypten, Tripolis, Tunesien, Algerien und Marocco) lebenden Binnenconchylien. V. Fam. Succinidæ, Auriculidæ, Limnæidæ, Cyclostomidæ & Hydrocenidæ. pp. 1-135, 1-14. Lund. (Håkan Ohlsson).
^ [1] animal diversity species list
^ 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". Zoologische Verhandelingen 154: 3-48. page 21-23. PDF.