page_title: Kanab ambersnail
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Kanab ambersnail / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: English: Vasey's Paradise, located 1 mile downriver of the terminus of the South Canyon Trail.
context_page_description: The Kanab ambersnail, scientific name Oxyloma haydeni kanabense or Oxyloma kanabense, is a critically endangered subspecies or species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. The common name of the amber snails is based on the shell, which is translucent and when empty usually resembles the color of amber.
  This species is endemic to the United States, specifically the state of Arizona and Utah, where it was first collected in the early 20th century. It has been listed as endangered on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species since 1991. In January 2020, the Trump Administration announced it plans to remove the Kanab ambersnail from the endangered species list.
  This snail lives in wetlands, springs, and seeps, and only two of its natural habitats are known to exist: Three Lakes, a meadow near Kanab, Utah, and Vasey's Paradise, a springs along the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park. In its natural habitat it is rather polyphagous, feeding mainly on bacteria, plants and fungi. It reproduces during the summer.
context_section_description: The natural predators of this snail are passerines, such as the (American robin), and deer mice.
caption: Vasey's Paradise, one of the two natural habitats of the Kanab ambersnail.
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