Oxychilus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the subfamily Oxychilinae of the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.[2]

Oxychilus
Oxychilus draparnaudi
The ventral surface of a shell of Oxychilus cellarius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Oxychilinae
Genus: Oxychilus
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Type species
Helix cellaria
O. F. Müller, 1774
Synonyms
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  • Aplostoma Moquin-Tandon, 1855
  • Cretozonites Kobelt, 1890
  • Euhyalina Albers, 1857
  • Euhyalinia J. W. Taylor, 1907
  • Helicella Gray, 1847
  • Hyalina Gray, 1847
  • Hyalina A. Férussac, 1821
  • Hyalina (Euhyalina) Albers, 1857
  • Hyalinia Charpentier, 1837
  • Hyalinia (Hyalinia) Charpentier, 1837
  • Hyalinia (Polita) Held, 1838
  • Hyalofulgida Monterosato, 1892
  • Lindholmella C.R. Boettger, 1930
  • Omalota Scudder, 1882
  • Oxychilops C.R. Boettger, 1930
  • Oxychilus (Alzonula) Giusti, 1969
  • Oxychilus (Atlantoxychilus) A. Riedel, 1964
  • Oxychilus (Calloretinella) F. Haas, 1934
  • Oxychilus (Costoxychilus) Neubert, 1998
  • Oxychilus (Drouetia) Gude, 1911
  • Oxychilus (Helicophana) Westerlund, 1886
  • Oxychilus (Hyalocornea) Monterosato, 1892
  • Oxychilus (Hyalofusca) Monterosato, 1892
  • Oxychilus (Longiphallus) A. Riedel, 1958
  • Oxychilus (Ortizius) Forcart, 1957
  • Oxychilus (Oxychilus) Fitzinger, 1833
  • Oxychilus (Radiolus) Wollaston, 1878·
  • Oxychilus (Tauroxychilus) Balashov, 2016
  • Polita Held, 1838
  • Zonites (Hyalinia) Charpentier, 1837

Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Oxychilus:[3]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Oxychilus amaltheae Riedel & Subai, 1982: synonym of Mediterranea amaltheae (A. Riedel & Subai, 1982) (original combination)
  • Oxychilus depressus (Sterki, 1880): synonym of Mediterranea depressa (Sterki, 1880)
  • Oxychilus deubeli (A. J. Wagner, 1914) - synonym: Oxychilus orientalis (Clessin, 1887);[4] synonym of Cellariopsis deubeli (A. J. Wagner, 1914)
  • Oxychilus glaber (Rossmässler, 1835): synonym of Morlina glabra (Rossmässler, 1835)
  • Oxychilus inopinatus (Uličný, 1887): synonym of Mediterranea inopinata (Uličný, 1887) (unaccepted combination)

References

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  1. ^ (in German) 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. ^ Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818444 on 2016-05-22
  3. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  4. ^ Horsák M., Juřičková L. & Picka J. (2013): Měkkýši České a Slovenské republiky. Molluscs of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Kabourek, Zlín, 264 pp. (in Czech and English).
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  • Giusti F. & Manganelli G. (2002). "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 37(5): 455–476. abstract.