Pristilomatidae
Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm
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Pristilomatidae

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:

  • Coreovitrea Riedel, 1967
  • Gollumia Riedel, 1988
  • Gyralina Andreae, 1902
  • Hawaiia Gude, 1911
  • Lindbergia Riedel, 1959
  • Pristiloma Ancey, 1887 - type genus of the family Pristilomatidae
  • Spinophallus Riedel, 1962
  • Troglovitrea Negrea & Riedel, 1968
  • Taurinellushka Balashov, 2014
  • Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 - There are three subgenera in the genus Vitrea:
    • subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833
    • subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907
    • subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854
  • Vermetum Wollaston, 1878

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. โ†‘ Cockerell T. D. A. (August 1891). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1891(2): 216.
  2. โ†‘ 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. โ†‘ "Vitreinae Thiele 1931". www.mollbase.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 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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