Oxychilidae is a taxonomic

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of air-breathing

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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 includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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s in the superfamily

Gastrodontoidea Gastrodontoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the limacoid clade. Taxonomy According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), families in this superfamily ...

Distribution

The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-

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, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopia 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

Genera

Genera within the Oxychilidae include: subfamily Oxychilinae * ''

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. Synonyms * ''Aplostoma'' Moquin-Tandon, 1855 * ''Cretozonites'' Kobelt, 1 ...

'' 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 * ''

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'' 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 * ''

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'' Clessin, 1880 - sometimes as a subgenus of ''Oxychilus'' * '' Morlina'' A. J. Wagner 1914 - sometimes as a subgenus of ''Oxychilus'' * '' Nastia'' Riedel, 1989 * ''

'' Fitzinger, 1833 * '' Pseudopolita'' Germain, 1908 * '' Schistophallus'' A. J. Wagner, 1914 * '' 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

Cladogram

The following

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shows the

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relationships of this family to the other families within the

limacoid clade The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina Distribution The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to b ...

:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". ''

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'' 27(2): 379-390.
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References

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