Oxyloma retusum - Wikipedia
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| Oxyloma retusum | |
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| Oxyloma retusum shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Succineidae |
| Genus: | Oxyloma |
| Species: | O. retusum |
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| Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834) | |
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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.
This species occurs in North America.
This snail eats dead and green plants in the summer, and only dead plants during the winter.[2]