Oxyloma retusum,[1] common name the blunt ambersnail, is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae.
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| Oxyloma retusum shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Succineidae |
| Genus: | Oxyloma |
| Species: | O. retusum
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834)
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Distribution edit
This species occurs in North America.
Biology edit
This snail eats dead and green plants in the summer, and only dead plants during the winter.[2]
References edit
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