Oxychilidae

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

Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.

Distribution

Distribution of Oxychilidae include Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian and Hawaii.^[2]

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 within the Oxychilidae include:

subfamily Oxychilinae

Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833^[3]
- subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833^[4]
- subgenus Ortizius Forcart 1957^[4]
- subgenus Cellariopsis A. J. Wagner 1914^[4]
- subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961^[4]
Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914
Eopolita Pollonera, 1916
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
Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914 - or a subgenus of Oxychilus

subfamily Daudebardiinae

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

subfamily Godwiniinae

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

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