Oxychona

Oxychona is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.^[1]

Oxychona
A shell of Oxychona bifasciata from Bahia, Brazil'
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Oxychona Mörch, 1852
Type species
Trochus bifasciatus Burrow, 1815

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)