Oxychilidae
| Oxychilidae | |
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| A live individual of the semi-slug species Daudebardia rufa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Oxychilidae Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879)[1] |
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Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
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 Kobelt, 1906
- Subfamily Cooke, 1921
Genera[]
Genera within the Oxychilidae include:
subfamily Oxychilinae
- Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833[3]
- Gude, 1911
- A. Riedel, 1977
- Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914
- Conulopolita O. Boettger, 1879
- A. Riedel, 1966
- Eopolita Pollonera, 1916
- O. Boettger, 1889
- 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
- Germain, 1908
- A. J. Wagner, 1914
- A. Riedel, 1963
subfamily
- Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895[5]
- Daudebardia Hartmann, 1821[3][5] - type genus of the subfamily Daudebardiinae
Cladogram[]
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[2]
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References[]
- ^ Hesse P. (1927). Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken, 3rd ed.: 47.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
- ^ a b c d "Oxychilus". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Daudebardiidae". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
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