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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879)[1]
Subfamilies

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

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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

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Genera within the Oxychilidae include:

subfamily Oxychilinae

subfamily Daudebardiinae

subfamily Nastiinae

Cladogram

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

 limacoid clade 

References

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