Oxychona
Genus of gastropods
| Oxychona | |
|---|---|
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| A shell of Oxychona bifasciata from Bahia, Brazil' | |
Scientific 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 | |
Oxychona is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[1]
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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
External links
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- Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae
- Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
