Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea

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 , families in this superfamily include:...

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Distribution

Distribution of Oxychilidae include Nearctic, western-Palearctic

Palearctic

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...

, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian and Hawaii.

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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• subfamily Oxychilinae Hesse, 1927 (1879) - synonyms: Helicellinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (inv.); Hyalininae Clessin, 1876 (inv.); Hyaliniinae Strebel
  Hermann Strebel (malacologist)
  Hermann Strebel was a malacologist from Germany and Mexico.- External links :* at Internet Archive...
  
   & Pfeffer, 1879; Nastiinae A. Riedel, 1989
• subfamily Daudebardiinae Kobelt, 1906
• subfamily Godwiniinae Cooke, 1921

Genera

Genera within the Oxychilidae include:

subfamily Oxychilinae

• Oxychilus
  Oxychilus
  Oxychilus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.-Species:There are more than 100 species in the genus Oxychilus...
  
  Fitzinger, 1833
  • subgenus Oxychilus
    Oxychilus
    Oxychilus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.-Species:There are more than 100 species in the genus Oxychilus...
    
    Fitzinger 1833
  • subgenus Ortizius Forcart 1957
  • subgenus Cellariopsis A. J. Wagner 1914
  • subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961
• Cellariopsis A.J.Wagner, 1914
• Eopolita Pollonera, 1916
• Mediterranea Clessin, 1880 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus
• Morlina A. J. Wagner 1914 - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus
• Nastia
  Nastia (gastropod)
  Nastia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.Nastia is the type genus of the subfamily Nastiinae, which is a synonym of Oxychilinae.- Distribution :...
  
  Riedel, 1989
• Schistophallus A. J. Wagner, 1914 - or a subgenus of Oxychilus

subfamily Daudebardiinae

• Carpathica
  Carpathica
  Carpathica is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.- Distribution :Distribution of Carpathica include south-eastern Europe and Turkey.- Description :...
  
  A. J. Wagner, 1895
• Daudebardia
  Daudebardia
  Daudebardia of small air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.-Species:Species within the genus Daudebardia include:** Daudebardia brevipes...
  
  Hartmann, 1821 - type genus of the subfamily Daudebardiinae

subfamily Godwiniinae

• Aegopinella
  Aegopinella
  Aegopinella is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.- Species :Species in the genus Aegopinella include:* Aegopinella epipedostoma...
  
  Lindholm, 1927
• Godwinia Sykes, 1900 - type genus of the subfamily Godwiniinae
• Nesovitrea
  Nesovitrea
  Nesovitrea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.-Species:Species within the genus Nesovitrea include:* Nesovitrea binneyana* Nesovitrea dalliana...
  
  C. M. Cooke, 1921
• Perpolita
  Perpolita
  Perpolita is a subgenus or genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.- References:* AnimalBase info at:...
  
  Baker, 1928

Cladogram

The following cladogram

Cladogram

A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...

 shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade

Limacoid clade

The limacoid clade is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the informal group Sigmurethra.- Distribution :...

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