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.[3]

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
  • Subfamily Nastiinae A. Riedel, 1989

Genera

Genera within the Oxychilidae include:

Subfamily Oxychilinae

Subfamily Daudebardiinae

Subfamily Nastiinae

Subfamily incertae sedis

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[3]

References

  1. ^ Hesse P. (1927). Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken, 3rd ed.: 47.
  2. ^ "Daudebardiidae". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2025-01-25.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b c d "Oxychilus". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b "Daudebardiidae". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
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