Oxychilidae

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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Oxychilidae Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879)[1]
Subfamilies
Daudebardiinae Godwiniinae Oxychilinae

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 Daudebardiinae Kobelt, 1906
• Subfamily Godwiniinae Cooke, 1921

Genera

Genera within the Oxychilidae include:

subfamily Oxychilinae

• Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833[3]
  • subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833[4]
  • subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961[4]
• Allogenes Gude, 1911
• Araboxychilus A. Riedel, 1977
• Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914
• Conulopolita O. Boettger, 1879
• Discoxychilus A. Riedel, 1966
• Eopolita Pollonera, 1916
• Gastranodon O. Boettger, 1889
• Iranoxychilus 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
• Pseudopolita Germain, 1908
• Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914
• Vitrinoxychilus A. Riedel, 1963

subfamily Daudebardiinae

• Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895[5]
• Daudebardia Hartmann, 1821[3][5] - type genus of the subfamily Daudebardiinae

subfamily Godwiniinae

• Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927[3]
• Godwinia Sykes, 1900 - type genus of the subfamily Godwiniinae
• Nesovitrea C. M. Cooke, 1921[3]
• Perpolita Baker, 1928[3]

Cladogram

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

limacoid clade

Staffordioidea  Staffordiidae        Dyakioidea  Dyakiidae    Gastrodontoidea    Pristilomatidae       Chronidae       Euconulidae     Trochomorphidae         Gastrodontidae     Oxychilidae              Parmacelloidea    Trigonochlamydidae     Parmacellidae     Milacidae          Zonitoidea  Zonitidae    Helicarionoidea    Helicarionidae       Ariophantidae     Urocyclidae          Limacoidea    Vitrinidae       Boettgerillidae       Limacidae     Agriolimacidae

References

1. Hesse P. (1927). Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken, 3rd ed.: 47.
2. 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. Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
4. "Oxychilus". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
5. "Daudebardiidae". Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.

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