| Carychiinae | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Apertural view of a shell of Carychium minimum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Carychiinae Jeffreys, 1830 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
| |
Carychiinae is a taxonomic subfamily of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [1]
Carychiinae is part of the family Ellobiidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]
Some authors consider Carychiidae as a separate family. [3]
Genera within the subfamily Carychiinae include:
One lineage of the Ellobioidea, the Carychiidae has successfully accomplished a complete transition onto land. [3] Extant carychiid snails inhabit aphotic and permanently wet epigean ( Carychium ) or subterranean ( Zospeum ) environments throughout their Holarctic distribution. [3] This dramatic shift from a marine to a terrestrial habitat has occurred independently of the stylommatophoran land-snails of the Eupulmonata. [3]
[3] [4] [5] [11] [12] [6] [8] [9] [10] [7]