Pristilomatidae

Pristilomatidae
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

Vitreinae H. B. Baker, 1930[2]

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).

Distribution

The distribution of Pristilomatidae includes the Nearctic, the western-Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii.[4]

Genera

Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[4]

 limacoid clade 

 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae




 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae


 Gastrodontoidea 


Pristilomatidae




Chronidae




Euconulidae



Trochomorphidae





Gastrodontidae



Oxychilidae







 Parmacelloidea 


Trigonochlamydidae



Parmacellidae



Milacidae





 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae


 Helicarionoidea 


Helicarionidae




Ariophantidae



Urocyclidae





 Limacoidea 


Vitrinidae




Boettgerillidae




Limacidae



Agriolimacidae









References

  1. Cockerell T. D. A. (August 1891). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1891(2): 216.
  2. Baker H. B. (24 April 1930) "New and problematic West African land snails". The Nautilus 43(4): 121-128. Vitreinae is on the page 122.
  3. http://www.mollbase.de/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=659 accessed 18 October 2009.
  4. 1 2 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.
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