Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[2]

Xanthonychidae
Averellia desidens shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Xanthonychidae
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879[1]
Type genus
Xanthonyx
Synonyms[2]

Epiphragmophoridae Hoffmann, 1928

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

2017 taxonomy

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The family Xanthonychidae consists of the following subfamilies:

Trichodiscininae H. Nordsieck, 1987: belongs to the family Trichodiscinidae H. Nordsieck, 1987

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

Genera

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Trichodiscina critina shell

Genera in the family Xanthonychidae include:

Subfamily Echinichinae F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012
  • Echinix F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012
Subfamily Epiphragmophorinae Hoffmann, 1928
subfamily Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939
Subfamily Humboldtianinae Pilsbry, 1939
  • Tribe Bunnyini H. Nordsieck, 1987
  • Tribe Humboldtianini Pilsbry, 1939
Subfamily Lysinoinae Hoffmann, 1928
Subfamily Monadeniinae H. Nordsieck, 1987
Subfamily Xanthonychinae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879

References

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  1. ^ Strebel & Pfeffer (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994714 on 2021-02-25
  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
  4. ^ a b Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
  5. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017