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 Subfamily Nastiinae A. Riedel, 1989
Genera Genera within the Oxychilidae include:
Subfamily Oxychilinae 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 Morlina A. J. Wagner 1914 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp. subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833"Oxychilus" . Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010. subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961 Pseudopolita Germain, 1908 Vitrinoxychilus A. Riedel, 1963 Subfamily Daudebardiinae Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895"Daudebardiidae" . Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010. Daudebardia Hartmann, 1821 - type genus of the subfamily Daudebardiinae Subfamily Nastiinae Nastia Riedel, 1989 Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914 Subfamily incertae sedis Selenochlamys Boettger, 1883
Cladogram The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. , JSTOR.
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