Oxychona

Oxychona is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae. [1]

Oxychona
A shell of Oxychona bifasciata from Bahia, Brazil'
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Oxychona
Mörch, 1852
Type species
Trochus bifasciatus Burrow, 1815

Species

Species in the genus Oxychona include:[2]

  • Oxychona bifasciata (Burrow, 1815)
  • Oxychona blanchetiana (Moricand, 1833)
  • Oxychona bosciana (Férussac, 1832)
  • Oxychona currani (Bartsch, 1916)
  • Oxychona gyrina (Deshayes, 1850)
  • Oxychona lonchostoma (Manke, 1828)
  • Oxychona maculata Salvador & Cavallari, 2013
  • Oxychona michelinae Porto, da Rocha, Johnsson & Neves, 2016
  • Oxychona pyramidella (Spix, 1827)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Oxychona layardi Hartman, 1889: synonym of Dendrotrochus (Santotrochus) layardi (Hartman, 1889) represented as Dendrotrochus layardi (Hartman, 1889) (original combination)

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oxychona Mörch, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995863 on 2021-02-07
  2. Salvador, R. B.; Cavallari, D. C. (2013). "A new Oxychona species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicidae) from Bahia state, Brazil". Journal of Conchology. 41 (3): 315–318.
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