Oxynoidae

Family of gastropods


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::summary Family of gastropods ::

| image = Oxynoe olivacea.Oolivacea Mgiangrasso enhanced.jpg | image_caption = View of the underside of Oxynoe olivacea | image2 = Lobiger viridis.png | image2_caption = Lobiger viridis on Caulerpa sp. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 5mm | taxon = Oxynoidae | authority = Stoliczka, 1868 (1847) | synonyms =

  • Lobiger Krohn, 1847
  • Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956
  • Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814
  • Roburnella Ev. Marcus, 1982 | synonyms_ref =

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2005 | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families | journal = Malacologia | volume =47 | issue = 1–2

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following three genera or four are included in the family Oxynoidae:

Invalid taxa placed in Oxynoidae include:

  • Icarus gravesii Forbes, 1844 - type locality: Aegean Sea
  • Lophocercus krohnii A. Adams, 1854 - type locality: Hawaiian Islands :
  • Lophocercus sieboldii Krohn, 1847 - type locality: Messina, Italy : synonym of Oxynoe olivacea Rafinesque, 1814
  • Lophocercus viridis Pease, 1861 : synonym of Oxynoe viridis (Pease, 1861)

References

References

  1. "Oxynoidae".
  2. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.
  3. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". [[Frontiers in Zoology]].
  4. (2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". [[Bonner zoologische Beiträge]].

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