Carychium

Carychium
Shell of Carychium minimum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Carychiinae
Genus: Carychium
O. F. Müller, 1773
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.

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