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Oxychilidae
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Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyOxychilidae
Die Glanzschnecken (Oxychilidae) sind eine Familie (oder Unterfamilie) aus der Unterordnung der Landlungenschnecken (Stylommatophora). In Europa kommen etwa 75 Arten vor.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 238
- Family
- Oxychilidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, CM, FMNH, MNHN
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, Australia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Turkey, Malta
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Cladogram
- References
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
== Distribution == The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopia and Hawaii.
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