Oxynoidae Explained

Oxynoidae is a family of sea snails, bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following three genera ^{[2] [3]} or four are included in the family Oxynoidae:

• Lobiger Krohn, 1847
• Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956 with the only species in the genus: Lophopleurella capensis (Thiele, 1912) from South Africa^[4]
• Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814
• Roburnella Marcus, 1982 with the only species Roburnella wilsoni (Tate, 1889)^[4]

Invalid taxa placed in Oxynoidae include:^[4]

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . amp . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . Malacologia . 47 . 1–2 .
2. 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 . 10.1098/rstb.1996.0006 .
3. Händeler . K. . Grzymbowski . Y. P. . Krug . P. J. . Wägele . H. . 2009 . Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life . . 6 . 28 . 10.1186/1742-9994-6-28 . 19951407 . 2790442 . free .
4. Jensen . K. R. . 2007 . Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) . . 55 . 3–4 . 255–281 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002824/http://www.zfmk.de/BZB/BzB_55_3_05_Jensen.pdf . 2013-10-05 .