Oxychilus

Oxychilus
The ventral surface of a shell of Oxychilus cellarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Oxychilidae
Subfamily:	Oxychilinae
Genus:	Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833[1]

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 (at least 107 including synonyms^[2]) species in the genus Oxychilus. Species in the genus Oxychilus include:

• Oxychilus agostinhoi Martins, 1981
• Oxychilus albuferensis Altaba, 2007
• Oxychilus alliarius (Miller, 1822)
• Oxychilus amaltheae Riedel & Subai, 1982
• Oxychilus basajauna Atlonaga, 1990
• Oxychilus beckmanni Falkner, 2007^[3]
• Oxychilus cellarius (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Oxychilus depressus (Sterki, 1880)
• Oxychilus draparnaudi (Beck, 1837)
• Oxychilus glaber (Rossmässler, 1835)
• Oxychilus inopinatus (Uličný, 1887)
• Oxychilus lentiformis (Kobelt, 1882)
• Oxychilus lineolatus Martins & Ripken, 1991
• Oxychilus mariensis Gittenberger, 2008
• Oxychilus mortilleti (Pfeiffer, 1859)
• Oxychilus navarricus (Bourguignat, 1870) - formerly known as Oxychilus helveticus (Blum, 1881)
• Oxychilus oglasicola Giusti, 1968
• Oxychilus yartanicus Altaba, 2007
• and other species

References

1. ^ Fitzinger L. I. 1833. Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien.
2. ^ Species in genus Oxychilus. AnimalBase, accessed 30 December 2008.
3. ^ Falkner G. (2007). "Oxychilus (Oxychilus) beckmanni n. sp., eine neue Glanzschnecke von der Balearen-Insel Mallorca (Gastropoda: Oxychilidae). pp. 179-185. In: Beckmann K.-H.: Die Land- und Süßwassermollusken der Balearischen Inseln. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 255 pp., ISBN 978-3-939767-05-3.

External links

• Giusti F. & Manganelli G.: Redescription of two west European Oxychilus species: O. alliarius (Miller, 1822) and O. helveticus (Blum, 1881), and notes on the systematics of Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae). Journal of Conchology, May 2002 , Volume 37, Part: 5 Page: 455. (abstract)