Oxyloma sarsii

Oxyloma sarsii is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

Oxyloma sarsii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Succineidae
Genus:	Oxyloma
Species:	O. sarsii
Binomial name
Oxyloma sarsii (Esmark & Hoyer, 1886)

Description

Only reliably separated from the very similar Oxyloma elegans by dissection

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:

• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Bulgaria^[1]
• Ukraine^[2]
• and other areas

Habitat

This snail lives at the water line, at the edges of rivers and lakes.