Oxynoidae

Oxynoidae
	View of the underside of Oxynoe olivacea
	Lobiger viridis on Caulerpa sp. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 5mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; Informal group Opisthobranchia; clade Sacoglossa; clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Oxynoidae; Stoliczka, 1868 (1847)
Synonyms
	Icarinae Gray, 1847; Lophocercinae Gray, 1847; Lobigeridae Pruvot-Fol, 1954; Oxynoeidae (spelling variation);

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following three genera [2][3] or four[4] are included in the family Oxynoidae:

Lobiger Krohn, 1847
Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956 with the only species in the genus: Lophopleurella capensis (Thiele, 1912) from South Africa[4]
Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814
Roburnella Marcus, 1982 with the only species Roburnella wilsoni (Tate, 1889)[4]

Invalid taxa placed in Oxynoidae include:[4]

Icarus gravesii Forbes, 1844 - type locality: Aegean Sea
Lophocercus krohnii A. Adams, 1854 - type locality: Hawaiian Islands :
Lophocercus sieboldii Krohn, 1847 - type locality: Messina, Italy : synonym of Oxynoe olivacea Rafinesque, 1814
Lophocercus viridis Pease, 1861 : synonym of Oxynoe viridis (Pease, 1861)

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