Oxychona

Oxychona is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.

Oxychona
A shell of Oxychona bifasciata from Bahia, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bulimulidae
Genus:
Oxychona

Mörch, 1852

Species

Species in the genus Oxychona include:[1]

  • Oxychona bifasciata (Burrow, 1815)
  • Oxychona currani (Bartsch, 1916)
  • Oxychona gyrina (Deshayes, 1850)
  • Oxychona lonchostoma (Manke, 1828)
  • Oxychona maculata Salvador & Cavallari, 2013
  • Oxychona pyramidella (Spix, 1827)

References
  1. 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.
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