Oxyloma

---

title: "Oxyloma" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["succineidae"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/succineidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyloma" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

:*The Jurassic Astartidae clam erroneously named Oxyloma by Gardner and Campbell in 2002 is now known as *Oxyeurax. | image = Kanab Ambersnail.jpg | image_caption = A Kanab Ambersnail at Vaseys Paradise in Grand Canyon National Park. | parent_authority = Schileyko & Likharev, 1986 | taxon = Oxyloma | authority = Westerlund, 1885 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:

• 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)
• 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

References

1. 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).
2. [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Oxyloma.html#Oxyloma] animal diversity species list
3. [[Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen. 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. [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149011 PDF].

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::