http://www.collembo.org/key/rat/ontoidae.htm - Last updated on 2000.10.03 by Frans Janssens

Peter F. Bellinger (), Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
Kenneth A. Christiansen, Department of Biology, Grinnell College, PO Box V3, Grinnell, IA 50112-0806, USA

Invalid names in brackets. Valid junior synonyms in parentheses.

This list of generic names, the assignment of status, and the associated key are tentative. Comments and corrections are solicited.

Family Odontellidae

Afrodontella Deharveng, 1981

Type species Odontella septemlobata Salmon, 1954

Austrodontella Ellis & Bellinger, 1973

Type species Odontella trispina Womersley, 1935

[Triodontella Stach, 1949 nec Reitter, 1919

- Type species Odontella trispina Womersley, 1935]

Axenyllodes Stach, 1949

Type species Xenyllodes bayeri Kseneman, 1935

Caufrenyllodes Greenslade & Deharveng, 1984

Type species bacilloformis Greenslade & Deharveng, 1984

Clavontella - see Odontella

["Clavonthella"] - see Odontella

Neoclavontella - see Odontella

Odontella Schäffer, 1897

Type species loricata Schäffer, 1897

(Clavontella Salmon, 1944

- Type species caerulea Salmon, 1944)

["Clavonthella" of Yosii - lapsus]

(Neoclavontella Salmon, 1964

- Type species Clavontella caerulumbrosa Salmon, 1944)

(Odontellodes Stach, 1949

- Type species Odontella thauma Börner, 1909

(Pseudontella Salmon, 1942

- Type species forsteri Salmon, 1942)

(Zealandella Salmon, 1964

- Type species Odontella minutissima Salmon, 1942)

Subgenus Odontella s.str.