Vitrinidae

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Vitrinidae

Drawing of a live Vitrina pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Limacoidea
Family:	Vitrinidae Fitzinger, 1833
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Plutoniinae Cockerell, 1893 Vitriplutoniinae Collinge, 1893 Phenacolimacinae Schileyko, 1986 Semilimacinae Schileyko, 1986 Oligolimacini Schileyko, 2003

Three shells of Eucobresia diaphana, scale bar in mm

Vitrinidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The family Vitrinidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the Vitrinidae includes the Nearctic, western Palearctic, eastern Palearctic, and Ethiopian zones, as well as Hawaii.^[1]

Snails in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).^[2]

Genera in the family Vitrinidae include:

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:^[1]

Staffordioidea

Dyakioidea

Zonitoidea

Vitrinidae

Boettgerillidae

↑ 1.0 1.1 Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

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