Oxychilidae is a taxonomic

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of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

s, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.

Distribution

The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the

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, western-

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, eastern-Palearctic,

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and

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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 ''Oxychilus'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the subfamily Oxychilinae of the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''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 ''

'' 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 ''

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'' * '' Selenochlamys'' Boettger, 1883

Cladogram

The following

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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.
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References

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