Carychium

Carychium
Shell of Carychium minimum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Carychiinae
Genus: Carychium
O. F. Müller, 1773[1]
Synonyms
  • Auricella Jurine, 1817
  • Auriculina Moquin-Tandon, 1856
  • Carychium (Carychium) O.F. Müller, 1773· accepted, alternate representation
  • Carychium (Saraphia) Risso, 1826 (junior synonym)
  • Saraphia Risso, 1826

Carychium is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

  1. ^ Müller O. F. (1773). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Voluminis Imi pars Ima. pp. [1-33], 1-135. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WoRMS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).