Xanthonychidae

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Family of gastropods

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::summary Family of gastropods ::

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Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

2017 taxonomy

The family Xanthonychidae consists of the following subfamilies:

Trichodiscininae H. Nordsieck, 1987: belongs to the family Trichodiscinidae H. Nordsieck, 1987

Lysinoidae may be treated as a separate family with subfamilies Leptariontinae, Lysinoinae and Metostracinae.

Genera

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Genera in the family Xanthonychidae include: ;Subfamily Echinichinae F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012

  • Echinix F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012

; Subfamily Epiphragmophorinae Hoffmann, 1928

; subfamily Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939

; Subfamily Humboldtianinae Pilsbry, 1939

  • Tribe Bunnyini H. Nordsieck, 1987
  • Tribe Humboldtianini Pilsbry, 1939

; Subfamily Lysinoinae Hoffmann, 1928

; Subfamily Monadeniinae H. Nordsieck, 1987

; Subfamily Xanthonychinae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879

References

  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

References

  1. [[Hermann Strebel (malacologist). Strebel]] & [[Georg Johann Pfeffer. Pfeffer]] (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994714 on 2021-02-25
  3. Bank, R. (2017). Lysinoidae Hoffmann, 1928. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994710 on 2017-08-29
  4. Barrientos, Zaidett. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica.". Revista de Biología Tropical.
  5. {{Bouchet 2005

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