Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae
A live individual of the semi-slug species Daudebardia rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Oxychilidae Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879) [1]
Subfamilies
Daudebardiinae Godwiniinae Nastiinae Oxychilinae
Synonyms
Daudebardiidae [2]

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. ^[3]

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 ^[4]
• Morlina A. J. Wagner 1914 ^[5] - sometimes as a subgenus of Oxychilus ^[4]
• Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833 ^[5]
  • subgenus Oxychilus Fitzinger 1833 ^[4]
  • subgenus Riedelius Hudec 1961 ^[4]
• Pseudopolita Germain, 1908
• Vitrinoxychilus A. Riedel, 1963

Subfamily Daudebardiinae

• Carpathica A. J. Wagner, 1895 ^[6]
• Daudebardia Hartmann, 1821 ^{[5] [6]} - 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: ^[3]

limacoid clade	Staffordioidea Staffordiidae Dyakioidea Dyakiidae Gastrodontoidea Pristilomatidae Chronidae Euconulidae Trochomorphidae Gastrodontidae Oxychilidae Parmacelloidea Trigonochlamydidae Parmacellidae Milacidae Zonitoidea Zonitidae Helicarionoidea Helicarionidae Ariophantidae Urocyclidae Limacoidea Vitrinidae Boettgerillidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae

References

1. Hesse P. (1927). Unsere Land- & Süsswasser-Mollusken, 3rd ed.: 47.
2. "Daudebardiidae". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2025-01-25.
3. 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, JSTOR.
4. "Oxychilus" Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine . Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.
5. Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. (2001). Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
6. "Daudebardiidae" Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine . Molluscs of central Europe, accessed 4 September 2010.