Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.

Oxychilidae
A live individual of the semi-slug species Daudebardia rufa
Scientific classification
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Oxychilidae

Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879)[1]
Subfamilies
  • Daudebardiinae
  • Godwiniinae
  • Oxychilinae

Distribution

The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopia and Hawaii.[2]

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

  • Subfamily Oxychilinae Hesse, 1927 (1879) - synonyms: Helicellinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (inv.); Hyalininae Clessin, 1876 (inv.); Hyaliniinae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879; Nastiinae A. Riedel, 1989
  • Subfamily Daudebardiinae Kobelt, 1906
  • Subfamily Godwiniinae Cooke, 1921

Genera

Genera within the Oxychilidae include:

subfamily Oxychilinae

  • Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833[3]
  • Allogenes Gude, 1911
  • Araboxychilus A. Riedel, 1977
  • Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914
  • Conulopolita O. Boettger, 1879
  • Discoxychilus A. Riedel, 1966
  • Eopolita Pollonera, 1916
  • Gastranodon O. Boettger, 1889
  • Iranoxychilus A. Riedel, 1998
  • Mediterranea Clessin, 1880 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus[4]
  • Morlina A. J. Wagner 1914[3] - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus[4]
  • Nastia Riedel, 1989
  • Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833
  • Pseudopolita Germain, 1908
  • Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914
  • Vitrinoxychilus A. Riedel, 1963

subfamily Daudebardiinae

subfamily Godwiniinae

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[2]

 limacoid clade 
 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae

 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae

 Gastrodontoidea 

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

 Parmacelloidea 

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae

 Helicarionoidea 

Helicarionidae

Ariophantidae

Urocyclidae

 Limacoidea 

Vitrinidae

Boettgerillidae

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

References

  1. Hesse P. (1927). Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken, 3rd ed.: 47.
  2. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  3. Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
  4. "Oxychilus". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
  5. "Daudebardiidae". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
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