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Kanab ambersnail, the Glossary

The Kanab ambersnail, formerly classified as Oxyloma haydeni kanabense or Oxyloma kanabense, is a small, air-breathing land snail belonging to the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.^[1]

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Gastropods described in 1948
Kana
Succineidae

Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin.

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American robin

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family.

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Aperture (mollusc)

The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Best Friends Animal Society, (BFAS) founded in its present form in 1993, is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal welfare organization based in Kanab, Utah with satellite offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Bentonville, Arkansas, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California, New York City, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Catinella (gastropod)

Catinella is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. Kanab ambersnail and Catinella (gastropod) are Succineidae.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States

A work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties".

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Courthouse News Service

Courthouse News Service is an American news service primarily focusing on civil litigation.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Cyperaceae

The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.

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Cypripedium

Cypripedium is a genus of 58 species and nothospecies of hardy orchids; it is one of five genera that together compose the subfamily of lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae).

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Endangered species recovery plan

An endangered species recovery plan, also known as a species recovery plan, species action plan, species conservation action, or simply recovery plan, is a document describing the current status, threats and intended methods for increasing rare and endangered species population sizes.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Erythranthe cardinalis

Erythranthe cardinalis, the scarlet monkeyflower, is a flowering perennial in the family Phrymaceae.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Gastropod shell

The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc.

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Gastropoda

Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.

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Genetic testing

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.

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Genetic variability

Genetic variability is either the presence of, or the generation of, genetic differences.

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Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.

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Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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James Ferriss

James Henry Ferriss (November 18, 1849 – March 17, 1926) was an American politician and amateur conchologist.

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Juncus

Juncus is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes.

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Kanab, Utah

Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States. Kanab ambersnail and Kanab, Utah are Kana.

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Land snail

A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Niobrara ambersnail

Oxyloma haydeni haydeni, common name the Niobrara ambersnail, is a subspecies of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. Kanab ambersnail and Niobrara ambersnail are Succineidae.

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Oxyloma

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

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Peromyscus

Peromyscus is a genus of rodents.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Pulmonata

Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills.

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Radula

The radula (radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue.

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Seep (hydrology)

A seep or flush is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the Earth's surface from an underground aquifer.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species reintroduction

Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.

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Spire (mollusc)

A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Succineidae

Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.

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Tentacle

In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanab_ambersnail

Also known as Kanab Amber Snail, Kanab amber-snail, Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis, Oxyloma kanabense.

, Succineidae, Tentacle, Terrestrial animal, The Nautilus (journal), United States, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered mammals and birds, United States Geological Survey, Utah, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Vasey's Paradise, Watercress, Wet meadow, Wetland, Whorl (mollusc).

Kanab ambersnail, the Glossary

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Gastropods described in 1948

Kana

Succineidae

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