Chronidae
| Chronidae | |
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| 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: | Chronidae Thiele, 1931 |
| Genera | |
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Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
Distribution of Chronidae include eastern-Palearctic, Ethiopian, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesian.[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Chronidae include:
- Chronos Robson, 1914 - type genus of the family Chronidae
- Nesokaliella Gerlach - endemic to the Seychelles
- Nesokaliella minuta Baker
- Nesokaliella intermedia Pfeiffer
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:[1]
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References
- ↑ 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.