Oxychona Explained

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)

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Salvador. R. B.. Cavallari, D. C.. A new Oxychona species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicidae) from Bahia state, Brazil. Journal of Conchology. 2013. 41. 3. 315–318.