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Oxynoidae

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.

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Oxynoidae
View of the underside of Oxynoe olivacea
Lobiger viridis on Caulerpa sp. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 5mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Sacoglossa
Superfamily: Oxynooidea
Family: Oxynoidae
Stoliczka, 1868 (1847)
Synonyms1
  • Lobiger Krohn, 1847
  • Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956
  • Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814
  • Roburnella Ev. Marcus, 1982

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.2

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following three genera 34 or four5 are included in the family Oxynoidae:

Invalid taxa placed in Oxynoidae include:5

  • Icarus gravesii Forbes, 1844 - type locality: Aegean Sea
  • Lophocercus krohnii A. Adams, 1854 - type locality: Hawaiian Islands :
  • Lophocercus sieboldii Krohn, 1847 - type locality: Messina, Italy : synonym of Oxynoe olivacea Rafinesque, 1814
  • Lophocercus viridis Pease, 1861 : synonym of Oxynoe viridis (Pease, 1861)
References

References

  1. "Oxynoidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. Jensen, K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 351 (1335): 91–122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
  4. Händeler, K.; Grzymbowski, Y. P.; Krug, P. J.; Wägele, H. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology. 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28. PMC 2790442. PMID 19951407.
  5. Jensen, K. R. (2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" (PDF). Bonner zoologische Beiträge. 55 (3–4): 255–281. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-05.