| Pristilomatidae | |
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| Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Pristilomatidae T. Cockerell, 1891[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Vitreinae H. B. Baker, 1930[2] |
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Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to the "limacoid clade", and Vitreinae is a synonym for Pristilomatidae, although Vitreinae used to be a subfamily of Zonitidae.[3] Family Pristilomatidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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Distribution of Pristilomatidae include Nearctic, western-Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii.[4]
Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[4]
| limacoid clade |
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