Carychiinae is a taxonomic subfamily of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
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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 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 †
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]
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Weigand A. M., Jochum A., Slapnik R., Schnitzler J., Zarza E. & Klussmann-Kolb A. (2013). "Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses". BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 18.doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-18. Jochum, A., Ruthensteiner, B., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Kneubühler, J., & Favre, A. (2018). Fulfilling the taxonomic consequence after DNA Barcoding: Carychium panamaense sp. n.(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from Panama is described using computed tomographic (CT) imaging. ZooKeys, (795), 1.(PDF) Jochum, A., Weigand, A. M., Bochud, E., Inäbnit, T., Dörge, D. D., Ruthensteiner, B., ... & Kampschulte, M. (2017). Three new species of Carychium OF Müller, 1773 from the Southeastern USA, Belize and Panama are described using computer tomography (CT)(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys, (675), 97.(PDF) Jochum, A., Prozorova, L., Sharyi-ool, M., & Páll-Gergely, B. (2015). A new member of troglobitic Carychiidae, Koreozospeum nodongense gen. et sp. n.(Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea) is described from Korea. ZooKeys, (517), 39.(PDF) Inäbnit, T., Jochum, A., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Slapnik, R., ... & Neubert, E. (2019). An integrative taxonomic study reveals carychiid microsnails of the troglobitic genus Zospeum in the Eastern and Dinaric Alps (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19(2), 135-177.
Jochum, A., Prieto, C. E., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Vrabec, M., ... & de Winter, A. J. (2019). Re-evaluation of Zospeum schaufussi von Frauenfeld, 1862 and Z. suarezi Gittenberger, 1980, including the description of two new Iberian species using Computer Tomography (CT)(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys 835: 65–86.(PDF) Jochum, A., De Winter, A. J., Weigand, A. M., Gómez, B., & Prieto, C. (2015). Two new species of Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 from the Basque-Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain (Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys, (483), 81.(PDF) Jochum, A., Slapnik, R., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Páll-Gergely, B., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., ... & Weigand, A. M. (2015). Groping through the black box of variability: An integrative taxonomic and nomenclatural re-evaluation of Zospeum isselianum Pollonera, 1887 and allied species using new imaging technology (Nano-CT, SEM), conchological, histological and molecular data (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). Subterranean Biology, 16, 123-165.
Weigand, A. (2013). New Zospeum species (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from 980 m depth in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system (Velebit Mts., Croatia). Subterranean Biology, 11, 45.
Jochum, A., Weigand, A. M., Slapnik, R., Valentinčič, J., & Prieto, C. E. (2012). The microscopic ellobioid, Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 (Pulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) makes a big debut in Basque Country and the province of Burgos (Spain). MalaCo, 8, 400-403.(PDF)
