Oxychilidae

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Rank Family		Class Gastropoda Phylum Mollusca

Similar Oxychilus, Oxychilus draparnaudi, Vitrinidae, Euconulidae, Oxychilus cellarius

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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.

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

subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833

subgenus Ortizius Forcart 1957

subgenus Cellariopsis A. J. Wagner 1914

subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961

Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914

Eopolita Pollonera, 1916

Mediterranea Clessin, 1880 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus

Morlina A. J. Wagner 1914 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus

Nastia Riedel, 1989

Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914 - or a subgenus of Oxychilus

subfamily Daudebardiinae

Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895

Daudebardia Hartmann, 1821 - type genus of the subfamily Daudebardiinae

subfamily Godwiniinae

Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927

Godwinia Sykes, 1900 - type genus of the subfamily Godwiniinae

Nesovitrea C. M. Cooke, 1921

Perpolita Baker, 1928

Cladogram

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

References

Oxychilidae Wikipedia

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