Xanthonychidae

Xanthonychidae
Averellia desidens shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Xanthonychidae
Type genus
Xanthonyx

Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

2005 taxonomy

The family Xanthonychidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[2]

  • Xanthonychinae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
  • Lysinoinae Hoffmann, 1928
    • tribe Lysinoini Hoffmann, 1928
    • tribe Leptariontini H. Nordsieck, 1987 - synonym: Tryonigentinae Schileyko, 1991
  • Metostracinae H. Nordsieck, 1987
  • Trichodiscininae H. Nordsieck, 1987
    • Trichodiscini H. Nordsieck, 1987
    • Miraverelliini Schileyko, 1991

2017 taxonomy

Lysinoidae may be treated as a separate family with subfamilies Leptariontinae, Lysinoinae and Metostracinae.[3]

Genera

Trichodiscina critina shell

Genera in the family Xanthonychidae include:

subfamily Xanthonychinae

  • Xanthonyx Crosse & P. Fischer, 1867 - the type genus of the family Xanthonychidae[2]

subfamily Trichodiscininae
tribe Trichodiscini

  • Trichodiscina E. von Martens, 1892 - synonym: Trichodiscus Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879

tribe Miraverelliini

  • Averellia Ancey, 1887 - synonym: Coelospira Ancey, 1886
  • Miraverellia H.B. Baker, 1922

References

  1. ↑ Strebel & Pfeffer (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ↑ Bank, R. (2017). Lysinoidae Hoffmann, 1928. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994710 on 2017-08-29
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