Oxychilidae

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title: "Oxychilidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["oxychilidae", "gastropod-families"] description: "Family of gastropods" topic_path: "general/oxychilidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxychilidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of gastropods ::

| image = Daudebardia rufa live.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of the semi-slug species Daudebardia rufa | taxon = Oxychilidae | authority = Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879) | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies | subdivision =

• Daudebardiinae
• Godwiniinae
• Nastiinae
• Oxychilinae | synonyms =
• Daudebardiidae

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, 1833
  • subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833
  • subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961
• Pseudopolita Germain, 1908
• Vitrinoxychilus A. Riedel, 1963 Subfamily Daudebardiinae
• Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895
• 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:

|label1=limacoid clade |1={{clade |label1=Staffordioidea |1=Staffordiidae |2={{clade |1={{clade |label1=Dyakioidea |1=Dyakiidae |label2=Gastrodontoidea |2={{clade |1=Pristilomatidae |2={{clade |1=Chronidae |2={{clade |1=Euconulidae |2=Trochomorphidae |3={{clade |1=Gastrodontidae |2=Oxychilidae |2={{clade |label1=Parmacelloidea |1={{clade |1=Trigonochlamydidae |2=Parmacellidae |3=Milacidae |2={{clade |1={{clade |label1=Zonitoidea |1=Zonitidae |label2=Helicarionoidea |2={{clade |1=Helicarionidae |2={{clade |1=Ariophantidae |2=Urocyclidae |label2=Limacoidea |2={{clade |1=Vitrinidae |2={{clade |1=Boettgerillidae |2={{clade |1=Limacidae |2=Agriolimacidae

References

References

1. Hesse P. (1927). ''Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken'', 3rd ed.: 47.
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3. Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). ''Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe''. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
4. link. (2011-07-27 . Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.)
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6. 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, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2656267 JSTOR].

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