Carychiinae
Subfamily of gastropods
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carychiinae is a taxonomic subfamily of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
| Carychiinae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Apertural view of a shell of Carychium minimum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Carychiinae Jeffreys, 1830 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Taxonomy
Carychiinae is part of the family Ellobiidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
Some authors consider Carychiidae as a separate family.[3]
Genera
Genera within the subfamily Carychiinae include:
- Carychiella Strauch, 1977
- Carychiopsina Kadolsky, 2020 †
- Carychiopsis Sandberger, 1872 †
- Carychium O. F. Müller, 1773 - type genus of the subfamily Carychiinae[2][4][5]
- Koreozospeum Jochum, Prozorova, Sharyi-ool & Páll-Gergely, 2015 [6]
- Ovicarychium Kadolsky, 2020 †
- Turricarychium Kadolsky, 2020 †
- Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 [7][8][9][10][11][12]
- Zuella Kadolsky, 2020 †
Ecology
One lineage of the Ellobioidea, the Carychiidae has successfully accomplished a complete transition onto land.[3] Extant carychiid snails inhabit aphotic and permanently wet epigean (Carychium) or subterranean (Zospeum) environments throughout their Holarctic distribution.[3] This dramatic shift from a marine to a terrestrial habitat has occurred independently of the stylommatophoran land-snails of the Eupulmonata.[3]
