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Pristilomatidae

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Pristilomatidae
Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
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 molluscs 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

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

Genera

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Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:

Cladogram

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

 limacoid clade 

References

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  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. ^ "Vitreinae Thiele 1931". www.mollbase.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  4. ^ a b 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.