Oxynoidae

Oxynoidae
view from bottom to Oxynoe olivacea
Lobiger viridis on Caulerpa sp. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 0.5 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia Informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Oxynoidae Stoliczka, 1868 (1847)
Synonyms
Icarinae Gray, 1847 Lophocercinae Gray, 1847 Lobigeridae Pruvot-Fol, 1954 Oxynoeidae (spelling variation)

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following three genera ^[2][3] or four^[4] are included in the family Oxynoidae:

• Lobiger Krohn, 1847
• Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956 with the only species in the genus: Lophopleurella capensis (Thiele, 1912) from South Africa^[4]
• Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814
• Roburnella Marcus, 1982 with the only species Roburnella wilsoni (Tate, 1889)^[4]

Invalid taxa placed in Oxynoidae include:^[4]

• 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

1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
2. ^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351 (1335): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
3. ^ Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J. & Wägele H. (2009) "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.