Oxychilidae
| Oxychilidae | |
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| A live individual of the semi-slug species Daudebardia rufa | |
| 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 Hesse in Geyer, 1927 (1879) |
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Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopia and Hawaii.
The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Genera within the Oxychilidae include:
subfamily Oxychilinae
subfamily Daudebardiinae
subfamily Godwiniinae
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:
Oxychilidae
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